Erbitux's rejection thrust Iressa into first place in the race to bring to market a new class of cancer drugs that disrupt cellular growth--without the wretched side effects of chemotherapy.
Rubin's team at Harvard, along with colleagues at the University of Michigan, has identified three genes that may be involved, including one that appears to remove the normal brakes on cellular growth, allowing prostate cells to spread like wildfire.
Telecom companies should look for continued flatness in landline activity, with moderate growth in cellular.
Consumers cut back on their telecom spending in the recession by slowing their growth of cellular service while accelerating cutbacks to land lines.
Profit growth for cellular companies is slowing, says Shvets.
Cellular operators in Asia offer a better growth story as they come from a much lower base.
It also has a majority share in Verizon Wireless , the nation's number two cellular provider, and a particularly profitable growth business.
Nokia has shown some signs of growth, but at least one cellular carrier does not care.
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Have a look at the growth of broadband Internet access, cellular phones.
Wireless messaging is going through a growth spurt in the U.S. The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, a trade group, estimates that, in December, U.S. wireless carriers processed more than 1 billion messages, about four times as many as were sent in December 2001.
Profits are off, sales growth has slowed dramatically and the company's market shares in cellular phone systems are slipping.
Better to model yourself on Cohen and seek your fortune in what he predicts are the growth areas of the 21st century: the electronic microchip, the cellular phone and Internet, new discoveries in DNA and the mapping of the human genome.
If we look at the projected growth in tablets as discussed above, it could very well be that our cellular subscriber forecasts (counting different devices separately) are conservative and thus additional upside to our price estimate for Verizon is possible.
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Damage that occurs at the cellular or molecular level can disrupt the body's natural control processes and allow an uncontrolled growth of cells, or cancer.
The company's Boost Mobile division, which markets prepaid cellular phone service to young consumers using sports- and music-oriented marketing, has seen excellent growth this year.
But growth attracts competition, which slows the earnings-per-share momentum of the more established cellular companies.
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