But these new findings don't tell us whether activating the cells artificially, in this case by cellphone radiation, will have a negative effect on health.
The Danish study is prospective in nature, which distinguishes it from most other studies on the health effects of cellphone use, which were case-control studies and enrolled subjects diagnosed with brain tumors and a comparison group of subjects who were free of brain tumors in order to compare reported cellphone usage in the two groups.
The hack came a day before Mr. Murdoch and his son James were expected to appear before Britain's parliament on Tuesday to answer questions about a growing phone-hacking scandal, in which employees of another News Corp. newspaper are alleged to have hacked into cellphone voice mail of celebrities, politicians and in one case a murdered girl.