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Unit 7: The latest figures underline the sharp growth of internet shopping in the decade since the launch of Netscape Navigator, the first widely available internet browser in 1994. While internet shopping accounted for just £300m of retail sales in 1999, by 2004 consumers were spending £14,5bn online, according to IMRG. "For a sector to have grown from scratch in 10 years with verry little investment suggest that the internet's time has come", said James Roper, IMRG chief executive.

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It happens all the time: a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company will spend ten years and hundreds of millions of dollars on a drug candidate that looks spectacular in animal models of a disease, only to see it fail during clinical trials, either because of unexpected adverse reactions in a small number of patients or a surprising lack of efficacy. For every drug that is approved, on average more than 6,000 new chemical substances are created. Only seven of these ever end up being tested in humans, and only three make it to Phase III clinical trials, the final step before...

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