...81 percent, were still alive three months to 16´ years after transplantation. In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Alain Fischer of the Necker Hospital in Paris called the study's results impressive. "Long-term follow-up, which found the...

...skeptics are harshly criticizing the field. "The clinical benefits we observe had never been achieved before," Dr. Alain Fischer, the Paris physician who performed the gene therapy, said at a news conference Thursday, describing his sickly patients...