RIT Researchers Explore Synthetic Alternatives to Horseshoe Crab Blood for Drug Testing
Kristoffer Whitney and Jolie Crunelle from RIT highlight the vital importance of horseshoe crab blood in testing intravenous drugs while advocating for the development and adoption of synthetic alternatives to safeguard both this unique species and public health.
Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society Kristoffer Whitney and Science, Technology, and Public Policy master's degree student Jolie Crunelle recently shared research in The Conversation that explains how horseshoe crabs have become so important in modern medicine. Their work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2121146, as well as the Leverhulme Trust through a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant. Additionally, Crunelle receives funding from the Aberg Family Fellowship at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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