IVAL: Columbia medical lab acquired by Alabama biotech firm

Discovery Life Sciences, a Huntsville, Alabama-based producer of biospecimens and biomarkers to make new therapies, has acquired Columbia, Maryland-based In Vitro ADMET Laboratories (IVAL). Financial details were not disclosed. According to Discovery Life Sciences, the acquisition adds to the company's inventory as well as brings a scientific leader into the company's fold. IVAL is a provider of physiologically relevant in vitro experimental systems to enhance the efficiency of drug metabolism,...