Horseshoe crab blood is an irreplaceable medical marvel—and so biomedical companies are bleeding 500K every year. Can this creature that’s been around since the dinosaurs be saved? He’d like to eventually take some of his discoveries to the medical labs with the hope that they can improve their bleeding practices. If we know the bleeding process reduces the crab’s hemocyanin, which compromises their immune system, feeding them a diet of copper before they are returned to the water might help bring their hemocyanin levels back up. He’d like to sell the idea to the bleeding labs. But to date, his attempts to reach them, —even to simply confirm that their bleeding simulations are accurate —have gone unanswered.

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