The Blood Harvest - The Atlantic - http://www.theatlantic.com/technol...
Fascinating. "The thing about the blood that everyone notices first: It's blue, baby blue. The marvelous thing about horseshoe crab blood, though, isn't the color. It's a chemical found only in the amoebocytes of its blood cells that can detect mere traces of bacterial presence and trap them in inescapable clots." - rønin