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 ...

THE amount of endotoxin required to produce fatal traumatic shock by the intracerebral route is roughly one-twentieth of that required by the intravenous route 1. The smaller dose is harmless when ...