Imperial Chemical Industries was born on the liner Aquitania in the mid-Atlantic when four British chemical barons of the 1920s agreed to combine forces.

ECONOMIST: British manufacturing

AstraZeneca traces its corporate DNA to Imperial Chemical Industries, once the biggest company in the British Empire, while Lilly created the insulin market and the biotech market among many other achievements.

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Imperial researchers have discovered what lies behind those high dopamine levels: changes in another brain chemical, called glutamate.

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