Physicians Committee for Responsible MedicineOpinion

WHO Issues New Global Guidelines to Replace Animal Experiments for Medicinal Quality Control

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its new 2025 Guidelines on the replacement or removal of animal tests for ...
The IslandOpinion

Medicinal drugs for Sri Lanka:The science of safety beyond rhetoric

The recent wave of pharmaceutical tragedies in Sri Lanka, as well as some others that have occurred regularly in the past, ...
Moviefone

Limulus (2023)

A kind of spoken love song, Limulus Love is all about a most remarkable nonhuman creature: the American Horseshoe Crab (Limulus Polyphemus). Part poetry (found and original), part informational, a bit ...
Frontiers

The yield of Limulus amoebocyte lysate (LAL), which is used for endotoxin detection and adjunct diagnosis of invasive fungal infection, was optimized with caffeine collection ...

Background: Limulus amoebocyte lysate (LAL) is a major component of the Fungal Infection Diagnosis Kit for the adjunct diagnosis of invasive fungal infections. During the previous bleeding season, PBS ...
TechSpot

Microsoft Edge gets a built-in internet speed test tool, here's how to use it

In a nutshell: Microsoft has rolled out a new update to its Edge browser, re-adding one notable feature removed from the software last year. Version 124.0.2478.80 sees the internet speed test return ...
PharmiWeb

A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Biomedical Testing: AmeboGenesis Introduces Sustainable Amebocyte Production for LAL Testing to Detect Bacterial Contamination

Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) Can Now Be Produced Without Harvesting the Blood of ~800,000 Horseshoe Crabs Each Year, Which Will Help Restore Their Natural Population GERMANTOWN, MD / ACCESSWIRE / ...
insider.si.edu

Limulus polyphemus

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Inverse

Modern Medicine Can't Exist Without This Ancient Sea Creature — The Relationship Can't Last Forever

If you have ever gotten a vaccine or received an intravenous drug and did not come down with a potentially life-threatening fever, you can thank a horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus). How can animals, ...
OPB

Vaccines are still tested with horseshoe crab blood. The industry is finally changing

Ariane Mueller / Ariane Müller Pharmeceutical companies could soon have easier access to synthetic alternatives to horseshoe crab blood, a key ingredient used to test vaccines and medical devices for ...
scienceopen.com

Human lactoferrin modulates gene expression of the cytokine IL4 and the receptor TLR4 in the rat spleen under stress and upon the lipopolysaccharide administration

Lactoferrin is a multifunctional glycoprotein of the transferrin family with a molecular mass of about 80 kDa. We studied the effect of human lactoferrin on stress- and lipopolysaccharide-induced ...
Men's Health

Is a Testosterone Test Important?

Welcome to Testosterone HQ—Men's Health's guide to the exciting, complicated, and revolutionary world of testosterone. For everything you need to know about T, click here. IF YOU'RE LOW on energy, low ...