60 Minutes: Season 48, Episode 33

48 - 33: Breakthrough Status | Collateral Damage

Breakthrough Status - FDA grants breakthrough status to Duke University cancer treatment documented by 60 Minutes.

Collateral Damage -The U.S. Justice Department bungled the economic espionage case against Xiaoxing Xi. The Department investigated him for contact with Chinese scientists that was required by his U.S. funded research grants. Now cleared, Xi, a naturalized citizen of the U.S., fears the false accusations may have lingering repercussions on his promising career. Xi appears in his first television interview in a Bill Whitaker story about Chinese American citizens wrongly accused of economic espionage related crimes for China.