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Curious Reading Club @readcurious.xyz · 01/10/2026

Excited to share our book of the month for October: "Beyond Inheritance" by @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social—a fresh perspective on what's going on with your DNA. Turns out we're all mutants! Sign up to join the club and get your copy today. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur030-bey...

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Evolve yourself with October’s book of the month

Roxanne Khamsi’s “Beyond Inheritance” offers a fresh look at genetics.

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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What could go wrong... "Investors on the libertarian fringe of the biotech industry are making their dream of widespread access to experimental drugs a reality in Montana." www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Montana’s giving the biotech industry sweeping authority to sell unapproved drugs

Americans will soon be able to travel to Big Sky Country to take experimental drugs in defiance of federal regulators.

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Excited to announce that I've got a few videos on a startup YouTube channel. 🎬📣 Here's the latest one. 👇 Subscribe if you dig 🙂 youtu.be/R50kUpYRmak?...

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Epigenetic Editing Finally Got Precise

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Tulio de Oliveira @tuliodna.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In the age of scientific misinformation & disinformation, we decided to invest in to create a scientific magazine that is curated using professional journalists and media communicators to highlight excellence of African science and innovation! Access the full magazine online at: ceri.africa/the-gem/

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A brilliant book, and an exhilarating summer read for all who are in science or curious about how it really works. Congrats, @robertakwok.bsky.social!

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Shawn Adamsson @adamsson.ca · 13/07/2026

Book 101. @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social’s Beyond Inheritance is both eye opening and, for me as a free-will skeptic, bias confirming (although that’s not remotely the premise of this book, and Roxanne may disagree on this point). A fascinating and accessible read. #booksky 📚

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Tune in to the latest episode of @alanalda's Clear+Vivid podcast. @alda and I speak about how he genomes we're born with are not the ones we die with. Listen here: clear-vivid-with-alan-alda.simplecast.com/episodes/rox... and read more in my new book: www.amazon.com/dp/059354191X

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A new review of my book, Beyond Inheritance (www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...) in The New York Review of Books, written by David Quammen: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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Song of Our Cells | David Quammen

Though a mystery to Darwin in his lifetime, the constant mutation of our genes is what allows for life’s magnificent diversity.

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The life-saving DNA of genetic outliers - I write all about how the search for these individuals who have variants of modifier genes is influencing medicine. Here's a post about my latest story for The Atlantic: roxanne.substack.com/p/the-life-s...

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The life-saving DNA of genetic outliers

Some people sidestep deadly mutations, and they're inspiring new treatments.

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Thx for heads-up, @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social! I started going through this and was thinking wow - this reads remarkably well, and then I glanced at author - @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social and then I wasn't surprised; fantastic overview of captivating topic.

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Finally, after more than 20 years, I had the chance to share my special "140" formula for writing. As a guest on Emerging Form, I talk about how this writing method influenced my new book Beyond Inheritance (www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...) Listen here: emergingform.substack.com/p/episode-16...

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

If you are interested in #epigenetics and #CRISPR you might want to know that they have changed their Facebook status to "in a relationship" roxanne.substack.com/p/crispr-and...

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CRISPR and Epigenetics finally tie the knot

You're about to hear a lot more about 'epigenetic editing'

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Can we fight tumors by pitting cancer cells against one another? This past weekend, I spoke with Bob McDonald on CBC's Quirks & Quarks about how doctors are already doing this. You can listen here, and check out my book Beyond Inheritance if you'd like to learn more. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

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We’re a hotbed of mutations, and scientists are leveraging that for our health

The genetic instructions you get from your parents are not the same instructions you have when you die. Our cells are mutating all the time, from the early embryo until our final breath. Some of these...

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

In a study of men, 3% had some Y chromosome loss at age 40, but that number rose to 44% at age 70. Hear more on the @nextbigidea.bsky.social podcast. iTunes 🎧 : podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... Spotify 🎧 : open.spotify.com/episode/7iIa... And the Book Bite: nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/bod...

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Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health: Khamsi, Roxanne: 9780593541913: Amazon.com: Books

Buy Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I'll take this word of encouragement to heart :-)

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

If you missed the event at De Stiil, you can still read all about the people uncovering genetic changes happening inside you as you live and breathe: roxannekhamsi.com

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Microbetv @microbetv.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

ICYMI Special guest @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social , science writer and author of Beyond Inheritance, joined Nels and Vincent for a livestream episode of This Week in Evolution (TWIEVO) on Tuesday 26 May 2026

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TWiEVO #126 Livestream 5/25/26 12:00 PM Eastern

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

📺 And if you missed the livestream, you can watch the show click here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxT5...

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TWiEVO #126 Livestream 5/25/26 12:00 PM Eastern

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The conversation got philosophical quickly on this episode of #TWiEVO. I joined Vincent Racaniello and @elearlybird.bsky.social to talk about how Darwin's principals of evolution play out in the human body. 🎧 iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5ior8qV...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A wonderful chance for folks @mcgill.ca @healthsciences.mcgill.ca to hear @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social speak! Title: "Overturning the dogma of genetic disease: The surprising reach of somatic mutations" Date: Wed, May 20 3:00 P.M. McIntyre Medical Bldg., McGill campus Format: In-person and Hybrid

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Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern @cri-utsw.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

We already thought @haozhulab.bsky.social hung the (liver-shaped) moon🌙 & now his #relentlessdiscovery is promulgated. Check out Chp 6, "When Our Bodies Autocorrect," p140 to read how somatic mutations could give us "hope." Great topic, @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social! 🧪 Watch out #booktok 🤓

Hao Zhu stands in front of a window holding the book "Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health."

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

One of the biggest highlights of the past week has been speaking with Eric Topol (@erictopol.bsky.social) on his show Ground Truths. The conversation was wide-ranging and exciting! Have a listen (or watch) here:

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A book that will challenge our usual ways of thinking about mutations and health "By letting go of the antiquated idea that every cell in a body has the same exact DNA, we can usher in a whole new era of medicine" Congrats @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social 👏 www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/711682...

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Happy publication day to Helen Pearson! Her book is so good that I almost missed my subway stop I was so engrossed in reading it. Check out the details below:

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This week marks the release of my book Beyond Inheritance 🎉 📖 . It tells the stories of patients with mysterious ailments who have been saved by doctors' new understanding of genetics. And how whales can teach us about preserving our DNA as we age. Available as book & audiobook: tinyurl.com/5yjsr97n

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Helen Pearson @helenpearson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A great book just out by talented writer @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social

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Michael Pollan @michaelpollan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Out today, a paradigm-shifting book on our biology by Roxanne Khamsi

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

If you’re curious how this hidden layer of biology is changing medicine—and what it means for your health—pick up a copy of BEYOND INHERITANCE. The book is out today: tinyurl.com/5yjsr97n (also now available as an audiobook 🎧)

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Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi: 9780593541913 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

“Constantly fascinating and impeccably reported...You won’t look at yourself in the same way again.” —Ed Yong, bestselling author of An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes A...

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This reporting changed how I see my own body. I no longer see it as something fixed by the genes I was born with. I view it as something constantly changing, adapting, and evolving.

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

To understand this hidden world, I dug into archival papers about a forgotten disciple of Darwin, visited labs sequencing DNA one cell at a time and spoke with patients whose “mysterious” illnesses suddenly made sense through our new understanding of #somaticmutation.

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

🧬 But there’s a twist. Mutation isn’t just something that harms us. In some cases, it can protect us—helping our bodies fight potentially deadly infections and adapt in real time.

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

These changes don’t just matter for cancer. They’ve been linked to: • autism • epilepsy • inflammation • Alzheimer’s • aging itself And they may help explain why disease can appear “out of nowhere.”

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

What I found is this: We are not genetically fixed. Our cells are evolving—minute by minute, day by day.

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I was trying to answer a simple but unsettling question: If our DNA is constantly changing inside us… what does that mean for our health?

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I saw that finding in a study in The New England Journal of Medicine. Instead of moving on, I picked up the phone and called the lead scientist behind it. That call turned into 100+ interviews over 3+ years.

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Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

📖 My book BEYOND INHERITANCE is out today. tinyurl.com/5yjsr97n This journey started with a fact I couldn’t ignore: Even in otherwise healthy adults, mutant cells can appear in the blood—quietly doubling the risk of heart disease and stroke.

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