Discovery Life Sciences

Discovery Life Sciences, based in Huntsville, Alabama, is a large commercial provider of biospecimens and biomarker services, supplying tissue, blood and cells to pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies. It runs a biobank of millions of specimens, a prospective collection network and multi-omic services. OnCo links it to biobanking and tissue procurement. Whether commercially sourced specimens carry the consent, annotation and quality that regulated diagnostics development needs is the standing question for the sector. The biobanking technology page carries the wider picture.