Ranbaxy Expands By Acquiring A Generic Company In Belgium
Indian pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., announced on Thursday about its overseas expansion of acquiring a generics company, Ethimed NV of Belgium. // This is the fourth acquisition announced by the company in a week. The earlier ones included the takeover of Romania's Terapia for $324 million, GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Italian generic business and the purchase of the rights...Gene Variant Responsible for Acquiring Intellect and Memory in Humans Identified
Chinese scientists have identified a unique gene variant linked with learning and memory, which may help understand how humans acquired intellect and language skills much faster than their closest relatives, monkeys. Researcher Bing Su and his colleagues at the Kunming Institute of Zoology say that the KLK8 gene makes the neuropsin II protein, which has been found to be vital for m...