New standards may help push more drugmakers to use a synthetic product for critical drug safety testing, instead of one made from horseshoe crab blood that has long drawn criticism. The U.S.

RICHMOND, VA, and PITTSBURGH, April 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FUJIFILM Wako Chemicals U.S.A. Corporation (Fujifilm), a supplier of high purity chemicals and reagents, and Predictive Oncology Inc., ...

This article discusses current methods of endotoxin testing, its importance to the industry, sustainability issues relating to the process, and best practices. The potentially devastating effects of ...

Quote from Orla Cloak, Director of Testing and Informatics Solutions, Lonza BioScience: “This new addition to our established PyroTec® PRO Solution provides laboratories with greater ability to reduce ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - If you've received a vaccination, hip replacement or chemotherapy without suffering toxic shock, chances are you've benefited from a vast bloodletting of horseshoe crabs. Every year ...

Associates of Cape Cod, Inc., (ACC), one of the world's largest manufacturers of products developed to detect and quantify gram-negative bacterial endotoxins and (1?3)-ß-D-glucans, has introduced a ...

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, it fulfills ...

Endotoxin tests number 70 million annually and are rising. If rFC gains traction, it could reshuffle winners and losers in the global market for such testing that is seen growing about 13% a year to ...

What are the benefits of microfluidic automation? Microfluidic automation is the most straightforward available form of automation for endotoxin testing on the market today. It streamlines endotoxin ...

It’s a bad week for horseshoe crabs as their defenders have failed to convince big pharma that synthetic crab blood is a viable alternative for endotoxin testing in drugs. Maryland-based US ...

If you’ve received a vaccination, hip replacement or chemotherapy without suffering toxic shock, chances are you’ve benefited from a vast bloodletting of horseshoe crabs. Every year, fishermen net ...