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For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to treat a patient with a genetic disorder.

“It is just amazing how far things have come,” says Victoria Gray, 34, of Forest, Miss. “It is wonderful,” she told NPR in an exclusive interview after undergoing the landmark treatment for sickle cell disease.

Gray is the first patient ever to be publicly identified as being involved in a study testing the use of CRISPR for a genetic disease.

“I always had hoped that something will come along,” she says from a hospital bed at the Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville, Tenn., where she received an infusion of billions of genetically modified cells. “It’s a good time to get healed.”

But it probably will take months, if not years, of careful monitoring of Gray and other patients before doctors know whether the treatment is safe and how well it might be helping patients.

In A 1st, Doctors In U.S. Use CRISPR Tool To Treat Patient With Genetic Disorder

Photos: Meredith Rizzo/NPR

The nervous system growing in a developing zebrafish embryo over a 16 hour period (Credit: Elizabeth Haynes & Jiaye He)

Sensory axons covering the tail of a 3- day-old larval zebrafish. This “Brainbow” image was collected using confocal microscopy.

So this is not at all what the pineal gland is supposed to look like but it's dope

Busy being that weirdo that sings Beach Boys songs while pouring agarose gels

everytime i move i crunch like popcorn

Victor Frankenstein: *builds a creature and brings it to life*

Victor Frankenstein: 

Top Three

Keeps You Going

Ghosts

Me watching the first episode of Umbrella Academy: damn Diego is cute but kind of a dick I don’t think I like him :/

Me watching the rest of Umbrella Academy, where we get to see Diego as a ridiculously hot secret softie that loves his mom, drinks his respect women juice, and calls Luther out on bullshit:

when your last date was in 1860 and you can’t keep up with the times…

“This video of this adorable little girl encouraging her Dad while he tries to do her hair, is just what we needed to brighten up our day.” [X]

my twitter: RDJsWatch

i love when jude says girls can’t be scientists and eva says “i extracted the dna from a banana once” and you can just tell from the look on his face that he had no idea bananas even had dna.

When Khutulun required her suitors to wrestle her and took their horses when they lost