Victor Frankenstein: *builds A Creature And Brings It To Life*

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Updated at 4:05 p.m. ET

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

Me: *pauses writing to check tumblr for 0.5 seconds*

My muse: Father is… abandoning me? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this document.

Inexplicable

I just realised Declan Lynch and Justin Russo from Wizards of Waverly Place give me the same vibe

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Kaz: Whatever you do just don’t ask Inej for advice, she has terrible taste in men.

Wylan: Aren’t you her boyfriend…?

Kaz: Yeah exactly. Have you met me?