The blood contains a special clotting agent. It's used to make a concoction called Limulus amebocyte lysate or LAL. Before LAL, scientists had no easy way of knowing whether a vaccine or medical ...

They also have a unique and highly effective immune system. Their blue blood contains a clotting agent, Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL), which is crucial for detecting bacterial endotoxins.

Meanwhile, the company employed lobbying firms to “work on the need for Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) product and synthetic products to be regulated similarly in terms of safety and ...

The guidelines don’t prohibit use of Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL), the clotting agent derived from horseshoe crabs. But the ...

To make sure their products don’t contain endotoxins, drugmakers mostly use a reagent called limulus amoebocyte lysate (LAL), made from extracted crab blood. While labs once measured LAL ...

The novel Sievers Eclipse BET platform reduces endotoxin assay setup time by as much as 85% and decreases the use of Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) reagent by up to 90%. At the same time ...

As part of the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Falmouth Forum series, biologist Michael Dawson will give a talk titled “The Horseshoe Crab: Ancient Mariner and Modern Medicine,” on Friday, November 22, ...

1| Incubate the cell lysate with 50 μl of a 50% slurry of glutathione-agarose beads and 25 μg of GST for 2 h at 4 °C with end-over-end mixing. The amount of lysate needed to detect an ...

The blood contains a special clotting agent. It's used to make a concoction called Limulus amebocyte lysate or LAL. Before LAL, scientists had no easy way of knowing whether a vaccine or medical ...