International Business News - Cell http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Shares of Cell Genesys Inc. made a modest recovery Thursday, a day after the company stopped a late-stage trial of its prostate cancer vaccine GVAX. The South San Francisco company's shares plunged almost 72 percent and hit an all-time low after Cell Genesys halted the trial because patients who received injections of GVAX were dying more often than patients who took only a standard treatment. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080828/a-day-after-ending-trial-cell-genesys-moves-up.htm Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:11:36 EDT Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/117708-cell-identity-switch.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080828/cells-change-identity-in-promising-breakthrough.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080828/cells-change-identity-in-promising-breakthrough.htm Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:20:30 EDT Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/117419-cell-identity-switch.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080827/cells-change-identity-in-promising-breakthrough.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080827/cells-change-identity-in-promising-breakthrough.htm Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:16:13 EDT Shares of Cell Genesys Inc. crashed to an all-time low Wednesday after the company stopped a clinical trial of its prostate cancer vaccine GVAX because of patient deaths. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080827/cell-genesys-at-all-time-low-after-gvax-trial-ends.htm Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:00:54 EDT Cell Genesys Inc. said Wednesday it ended a clinical trial of its prostate cancer vaccine GVAX because patients who were treated with the vaccine were dying more frequently than those only given a standard treatment. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080827/cell-genesys-ends-gvax-trial-due-to-patient-deaths.htm Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:23:21 EDT U.S. consumers have been buying significantly fewer cell phones but paying higher prices for them, according to a research firm. The NPD Group said in a report Tuesday that 28 million cell phones were sold in the United States in the second quarter, a decline of 13 percent from the same period a year ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080819/analysts-say-us-cell-phone-sales-fell-in-2q.htm Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:27:51 EDT A cell phone company is offering free wireless phones and 68 minutes of free air time to more than 800,000 low-income Tennessee residents in a program aimed at ensuring they can make a call in an emergency. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080815/free-cell-phones-offered-to-poor-tenn-residents.htm Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:51:21 EDT The National Renewable Energy Laboratory says its scientists have developed a device that can convert a record 40.8 percent of the light that hits it into electricity. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080814/lab-says-solar-cell-sets-record-for-efficiency.htm Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:40:48 EDT A Houston enclave has banned cell phone use for drivers near a local elementary school, the most stringent law of its kind in the nation. The ban, which applies within a three-block radius of the facility during school hours, is the latest in a long line of similar laws. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080811/houston-suburb-bans-all-cell-phone-use-near-school.htm Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:31:10 EDT The friendly skies are not so affable when it comes to using cell phones on commercial airliners. Nearly half of U.S. residents say they would oppose allowing cell phone use aboard flights even if there were no issues with the phones interfering with aircraft communications systems, a Department of Transportation survey finds. About four out of 10 residents said cell phone use should definitely or probably be permitted. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080807/survey-public-divided-on-in-flight-cell-phone-use.htm Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:16:59 EDT Sparsely populated areas of Nebraska with no cell phone service could be helped by a policy from the Public Service Commission that makes millions of dollars available for new cell towers. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080806/no-signal-neb-policy-could-expand-cell-coverage.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:33:02 EDT Biotech drug developer Cell Genesys Inc. reported Friday its loss widened in the second quarter, despite a major revenue infusion from a collaboration with Takeda Pharmaceuticals. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080801/cell-genesys-loss-widens-in-the-second-quarter.htm Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:26:01 EDT Cell phone calls on airplanes in flight are not only unsafe, they're obnoxious and they should be permanently banned, according to some members of Congress. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080731/congress-no-annoying-airplane-cell-phone-calls.htm Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:44:05 EDT The fees that cell phone carriers charge customers who break service contracts took a big hit in a California courtroom when a judge said such charges by Sprint Nextel Corp. likely violate state law. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080729/california-judge-rules-sprint-fees-unlawful.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:22:02 EDT When Amy Morris' twin boys, then 11, went on an academic trip to Washington last year, she agreed to give them cell phones at the program's request. But this summer she was dismayed to learn that girls at her 8-year-old daughter's day camp were using cell phones they'd taken along in their backpacks. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/98970-parenting-cell-phones.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080727/cancer-warning-adds-wrinkle-to-parenting-debate.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080727/cancer-warning-adds-wrinkle-to-parenting-debate.htm Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:24:59 EDT Standard & Poor's Inc. included 13 U.S. information technology companies among 73 companies based in the United States that made its annual Global Challengers, a list released Wednesday of mid-sized companies that show the "highest growth characteristics." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/s-p-names-13-us-it-companies-as-likely-to-grow.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:18:39 EDT The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/97032-cell-phone-warning.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/pittsburgh-cancer-center-warns-of-cell-phone-risks.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/pittsburgh-cancer-center-warns-of-cell-phone-risks.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:13:28 EDT The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/96700-cell-phone-warning.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/pitts-cancer-institute-warns-of-cell-phone-risks.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/pitts-cancer-institute-warns-of-cell-phone-risks.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:47:45 EDT For less than $15, you can buy a cell phone loaded with minutes. You can buy more as you go whenever those minutes run out. Best of all, you aren't locked into a long-term contract. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/90682-cell-phone-trafficking.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080713/cell-phone-companies-scramble-to-halt-trafficking.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080713/cell-phone-companies-scramble-to-halt-trafficking.htm Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:33:44 EDT Corrections officials across the country are trying to get cell phones out of prison cells. Maryland and Virginia have become the first states to train dogs to sniff out phones hidden in socks and books and under mattresses. Other states have passed bills to punish guards and visitors who provide them to inmates. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/88962-prison-cell-phones.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/prisons-trying-to-get-cell-phones-out-of-cells.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/prisons-trying-to-get-cell-phones-out-of-cells.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:51:27 EDT