Pinecrest Academy Space Coast Middle School "Bacteria Boys" experiment conducted by eighth-grade students officially launches into space. They’ll leverage the International Space Station National Laboratory to test whether Limulus Amebocyte Lysate, a component in horseshoe crab blood, can detect bacterial contamination in microgravity the same way it does on Earth.
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PORTLAND, Maine — The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400 million years, playing a vital role in the East Coast ecosystem
The biomedical industry is adopting new standards to protect a primordial sea animal that is a linchpin of the production of vital medicines. But conservationists worry the approach doesn’t go