Scientists face impossible choice over preservation of priceless blue crab blood: Let vital medicines wither or an endangered bird
Scientists face impossible choice over preservation of priceless blue crab blood: Let vital medicines wither or an endangered bird
“Everything you do in life comes from horseshoe crab blood," says fisherman George Topping. Vaccines and antibiotics just wouldn't be the same without it.
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Horseshoe crabs not blue crabs
Horseshoe "blood" is blue, and it's not actually blood it's hemolymph. It is blue crab blood. Blue blood from a crab.
Blue blood from a horseshoe crab yes. Blue crabs are also a thing and horseshoe crabs are always referred to with the word horseshoe in front. So calling them just crabs with the word blue in front is a poor choice if one cares about communication.
horseshoe crabs are always referred to with the word horseshoe in front
They weren't in this case, so that "always" seems to be a stretch.
if one cares about communication.
It's made clear in the article. If one cares about communication they're reading past a headline.
I don't know why you want to fight about this
It's a Fortune 500 article. They aren't very good on things like this. They mean the blue blood from horseshoe crabs.