CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND, Va., Sept. 11 — In a small unmarked building on a back island road four miles off the coast of Virginia, the bleeding begins. Hundreds of strange, spiked creatures are pinned to plastic racks as lab technicians in white coats and face masks glide from row to row, rubbing them with alcohol as though soothing them for their ordeal. The creatures flinch as long surgical needles are inserted into creases in their helmet-shaped shells. Blood spurts into bottles beneath them. Rich and blue, it is precious as gold. And every day it saves lives around the world.
NO OTHER CREATURE can produce this substance, the world’s only known source of a compound used to test for contaminants in every drug and vaccine, every artificial limb and every intravenous drip in every hospital in America. Science can’t make it either.
Only the horseshoe crab, one of the oldest living animals, older than dinosaurs, so old it is dubbed a “living fossil,” produces this magic.
And only in recent decades have scientists begun to fathom its power.
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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]
NO OTHER CREATURE can produce this substance, the world’s only known source of a compound used to test for contaminants in every drug and vaccine, every artificial limb and every intravenous drip in every hospital in America. Science can’t make it either.
Only the horseshoe crab, one of the oldest living animals, older than dinosaurs, so old it is dubbed a “living fossil,” produces this magic.
And only in recent decades have scientists begun to fathom its power.
Want to learn more? http://www.msnbc.com/news/458443.asp?0na=2335380-
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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]