Alien Blood Test

Posted by tourdemars to Life on Mars at July 9, 2003 12:00 PM

Scientists Hope to Use Horseshoe Crab Blood to Hunt for Life Outside Earth. "One of the reasons the horseshoe crab has survived for so long is its advanced immune system," said Norman Wainwright, a senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Mass. "This system can be used to find microbial life."