Endotoxin testing is critical in industries such as biopharmaceuticals and medical devices to ensure product safety and reliability. Endotoxins, which are lipopolysaccharides (LPS) found in ...

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.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its new 2025 Guidelines on the replacement or removal of animal tests for the quality control of biological products.

As thoroughly covered in your recent article (C&EN, Oct. 28, 2024, page 26), the issue of replacing the traditional natural product test for endotoxin, limulus amoebocyte lysate (LAL), with a ...

Endotoxin refers to a component of the outer cell membrane of Gram-negative bacteria called lipopolysaccharide (LPS). LPS is the biologically active portion of naturally occurring endotoxin complexes.

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Laurel Oldach about the use of horseshoe crab blood in pharmaceutical endotoxin testing, the challenges of ...

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 ...

Next generation robotic endotoxin testing system boosts manufacturing productivity in the lab Automation through robotics represents an evolution of bacterial endotoxin testing and streamlines quality ...

In this webinar, attendees will be provided an overview of the technologies that currently exist for bacterial endotoxins testing (BET), and the drawbacks associated with each. Microfluidic technology ...

Every year in May when high tide coincides with the full moon, horseshoe crabs convene on the beaches of the mid-Atlantic coast to lay millions of eggs. At the same time, migratory shorebirds on their ...

Endosafe ® Trillium™ recombinant cascade reagent (rCR) cartridges from Charles River Laboratories were designed to provide an alternative option to bolster commitments to sustainability and animal ...