Could this be a farmable alternative to horseshoe crab blood?
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The picture in this article caught my attention because it looks like a little horseshoe crab. This could be important because if it's blood is like horseshoe crab blood and if it is farmable this could be huge for the medical industry.
Horseshoe crab blood is important because instead of having an immune system the blood just clots at the slightest impurity, so it is used a lot in medicine to make sure things like iv solutions are sterile. However horseshoe crabs are a limited population that is overtapped for their blood. Having a viable alternative, especially a farmable one would ease the burden on the horseshoe crab population. Maybe I am presuming too much based on looks but it would be nice if a committee of pharma and environmental types could look into whether this might work. Thank you for your time.
https://www.livescience.com/dinosaur-shrimp-emerge-arizona
Horseshoe crab blood is important because instead of having an immune system the blood just clots at the slightest impurity, so it is used a lot in medicine to make sure things like iv solutions are sterile. However horseshoe crabs are a limited population that is overtapped for their blood. Having a viable alternative, especially a farmable one would ease the burden on the horseshoe crab population. Maybe I am presuming too much based on looks but it would be nice if a committee of pharma and environmental types could look into whether this might work. Thank you for your time.
https://www.livescience.com/dinosaur-shrimp-emerge-arizona