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BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS NECKER ISLAND Because "it's important to share beautiful things," hip Brit tycoon Richard Branson started hiring out his private paradise in 1985. For $272,650 a week, this Caribbean hideaway comes complete with a 10-room villa, three Balinese houses, freshwater pools, floodlit tennis courts and a staff of 33 to cater to every whim...
...many young SCID patients before with various types of bone-marrow transplants. What distinguishes these two babies, researchers reported in Science last week, is that they are the first to be treated, apparently successfully, entirely by gene therapy. Says Dr. Alain Fischer, who headed the gene team at Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades in Paris: "Preliminary evidence is of a faster and more complete immune reconstitution after gene therapy...
...sort of success that has eluded it for so long. In December, only a month before Jesse's death prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to shut down all gene-therapy research at the University of Pennsylvania, reports were circulating in scientific circles that a team from the Necker Hospital for Sick Children in Paris had achieved heartening results in a gene-therapy trial designed to cure severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), an inherited disorder that, left untreated, is fatal...
Pending publication of their results in a scientific journal, the Necker researchers are reluctant to divulge details. However, it appears that two 18-month-old boys with SCID remain healthy nine months after undergoing gene therapy. Their newfound ability to ward off infections that plagued them as infants appears to be a direct consequence of their receiving functioning copies of a gene that is crucial to the body's ability to fight disease...
...vaguely normal life-style. The children are not sent away to school; Joan does the cooking; the obligatory nanny is her niece. Weekends are spent in the home of their heart in Oxfordshire, two conjoined cottages set on a river. Of course, there is that little private dreamworld, Necker Island in the Caribbean, rented out between family visits to the $13,000-a-week crowd, like Steven Spielberg and Robert De Niro. Princess Diana too at the usual royal rate, no doubt...