The Incredible Value of Horseshoe Crab Blood

Excerpted from Pump: A Natural History of the Heart © 2021 by Bill Schutt. Reprinted by permission of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. The story of the Atlantic horseshoe crab’s first turn toward medical relevance occurred in 1956. That’s when Fred Bang, a pathobiologist from Woods Hole, found that some bacteria made horseshoe crab blood … Read more