Such a fun story to follow. Netflix are you there? Forget Love Is Blind. Do a series on adventurous travelers meeting up in exotic cities on blind dates!

Congrats to the team Gordian Biotechnology for the progress you’ve made already! Looking forward to following this exciting journey.

So who’s taking a break from drinking milk for awhile? Curious to hear from #MedTwitter since U.S. FDA is short on details.

Connections
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Whole house started shaking violently! #nj #earthquake

Pig kidney transplant recipient 'leaves the hospital' and goes home.

Now that is something we havent heard before in xenotransplant.

Could this go from radical to normal?

bbc.com/news/world-us-…

Our list of best crime and thriller books of March features Paul Heatley Lisa Scottoline Shane Spyre Christina Dodd Nicci French Tana French Isabella Maldonado Kira Peikoff Holly Hepburn Joanna Wallace Zoe Sharp and more mysterytribune.com/24-best-crime-… #books #goodmystery

Thank you Lauren Puckett-Pope and ELLE Magazine (US)!

My Top Ten Favorite Recent Thrillers: By @johnmarrs1 Blake Crouch Lisa Unger Andrea Bartz Lucy Foley 💙💛🇺🇦 Caitlin (Katie) Barasch Alexandra Andrews Zakiya Dalila Harris Joanne Ramos Sarah Pekkanen mysterycenter.com/2024/03/13/my-…

'What will it be a generation from now: science-assisted births for parents of all ages and genders? Or forced births for women who don’t want children and prevented births for those who do?' READ Hank Greely @kirapeikoff #IVG #IVF #ethics #bioethics
thehastingscenter.org/todays-politic…

Proud to share this piece on the IVF court ruling in Alabama, which I co-wrote with the esteemed Hank Greely: thehastingscenter.org/todays-politic…

Thank you for the shoutout New York Times Books!

It’s pub day! So excited to share this book with the world. Special thanks to my early readers and the enthusiastic support from Sarah Pekkanen Jack Reacher Books Rob Hart Meg Gardiner Andrea Bartz and Robin Cook. Woohoo!

This month, dive into the pulse-pounding world of BABY X with #author Kira Peikoff!

If you're near one of these events, make sure to drop in and say hi. 😉

#author events #meettheauthor #bookchat #author talk #events

The lung is now a #CRISPR -gene-editable organ, folks! Recode (below) and Moderna-Vertex have paved the way for this in their CFTR-mRNA trials.
1. Kudos to Prime Medicine for taking on CF this way.
2. Trials for surfactant def'cy can be next.
recodetx.com/recode-therape…

Here’s a bit of my IVF story, just in the service of helping folks understand all the many reasons why people freeze more embryos than they might ever use.

This is just my personal experience which I recognize is that of an enormously privileged person:

There is goodness in in our troubled world. There IS.
Exhibit 1A: work led UC San Francisco by Dr. Tippi MacKenzie Tippi MacKenzie to use #CRISPR and treat severe genetic disease before it does irreversible harm.
Inspiring reporting by Megan Molteni STAT.
statnews.com/2024/02/21/fet…

Apparently I was only a few years off when I wrote my first dystopian thriller, LIVING PROOF, back in 2007. From the jacket: “In 2027, destroying an embryo is considered first-degree murder….”

Just learned from my Chinese friend that my birthday, 5/21, is informally known as “I love you day” in China because the pronunciation of the numbers echoes that phrase. And his daughter was born on the same day. Pretty cool.

One of the most important Super Bowl ads in history! 🇮🇱

Robert Kraft has produced a superb message for tonight’s game, highlighting the immense increase in Jew hatred across the world, and showing the power of friendship and unity in combatting this age-old hatred.

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