The CF drug wasn't a big factor in the deal, but it became important to Vertex.
In contrast, seed giant Monsanto rose 3.5% and fertilizer maker CF Industries jumped 6%.
But only 70, 000 people have CF worldwide, too few to lure drug companies to develop treatments.
Prof Fisher said in Newcastle, average survival of CF patients was 10 years post transplant.
But Morningstar analyst Benjamin Johnson argues that the beneficial conditions CF now enjoys likely are temporary.
Red Sox CF Jacoby Ellsbury missed his second straight game because of tightness in his left groin.
The economy probably expanded at a 2.5% in Q4 cf. 2.6% in Q3 and 1.7% in Q2.
Mets CF Juan Lagares made his big league debut during a double switch in the fifth inning.
Because her donor lungs are free of the CF gene, they do not fill with sticky mucus.
The business will continue to trade while the administrator, Tom Keenan of Keenan CF, decides its future.
Ags are also in the mix, the leaders being CF Industries (CF), Monsanto (MON) and Agrium (AGU).
Using the CF as a metric can expose the differences in business models too (Southwest vs. major airlines).
The Mets optioned CF Collin Cowgill and called up Andrew Brown from Triple-A Las Vegas before the game.
Last year she was in a study of a promising experimental drug the CF Foundation paid to invent.
Doctors treating CF patients want to pick up "exacerbations", where infections lead to a worsening of lung function.
Girardi may switch Curtis Granderson to LF when he comes off the disabled list and leave Gardner in CF.
Yankees CF Curtis Granderson (broken right forearm) worked out on the field at the team's complex in Tampa, Fla.
Approval of another CF Foundation-backed drug, from Gilead Sciences, is expected any day.
But this CFTR protein is buried deep inside cells in most CF patients.
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"The thing about patients with CF is that they're good scientists, " he said.
Manager Davey Johnson said on the days he chooses to rest Span in CF, Harper could be shifted over.
Cf 252 is used in the analysis of minerals and to aid in the detection of explosives and landmines.
Some of the possibilities that have been reported include ground troops, CF-18 jet fighters and naval frigates on the front lines.
At a fraction of the price, we have some strong benchmark scores to go on, with the strange exception of CF-Bench.
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The new generation of patient power brokers sprang from the frustrated mind of CF Foundation President Robert Beall in the mid-1990s.
"It's a composite of all the bedrooms of the nine-strong Conservative Future national executive, " David Loader, CF national organiser, proudly explained.
The CF will reflect the outcomes of strategic decisions (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), served market choices and geographical expansion, and so forth.
The CF Foundation was the first patient charity to do something radical: pay for drugs to be invented and tested in people.
Mets CF prospect Matt den Dekker was diagnosed with a fractured right wrist and will be in a cast for six weeks.
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