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    New Treatment for PKU Clears Brain Fog

    16 May, 2019

    For sufferers of "brain fog," a new combination of medicine and gene therapy promises to clear up the misunderstanding. Dr. Ricki Lewis writes.

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    Ricki Lewis
  • Technology & Science

    DNA Day Has a New Meaning for Me This Year: I’m an NPE

    30 April, 2019

    In the hustle to monetize DNA testing, people forget that NPE can be a life-changing and devastating discovery. Dr. Ricki Lewis tells her own story.

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    Ricki Lewis
  • Technology & Science

    Why I Didn’t Write About Elizabeth Warren’s DNA

    29 October, 2018

    Dr. Ricki Lewis talks about the real surprises of genetic testing.

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    Ricki Lewis
  • Technology & Science

    Tilapia: Freak Farmed Fish or Evolutionary Rock Star?

    21 April, 2018

    Dr. Ricki Lewis digs into the evolution of the odd tilapia fish.

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    Ricki Lewis
  • Technology & Science

    Twenty Gene Variants and Transgender Identity: What Does It Mean?

    10 April, 2018

    A group of scientists at Augusta University are on the lookout for genetic data on transgender identity. But will genetic testing for transgender identity do harm or good? Dr. Ricki Lewis considers.

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    Ricki Lewis
  • Technology & Science

    How Genetic Testing Guided My Breast Cancer Journey – To Eschewing Beef

    22 January, 2018

    Dr. Ricki Lewis tells her personal story of breast cancer.

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    Ricki Lewis
  • Technology & Science

    White Supremacy: The Dark Side of Eugenics

    16 December, 2017

    Our favorite geneticist Dr. Ricki Lewis takes on the notions of white supremacy, and helps get Stormfront removed from the Internet...possibly.

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    Ricki Lewis
  • Technology & Science

    Genome Cloaking Preserves Privacy While Enabling Diagnosis

    12 September, 2017

    How can genome sequencing provide useful information without sacrificing privacy? Dr. Ricki Lewis investigates.

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    Ricki Lewis
  • Technology & Science

    Why Ethnicity-Based Genetic Testing is Obsolete

    21 July, 2017

    Dr Ricki Lewis returns with a column about the problem of race and ethnicity-based diagnostics.

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    Ricki Lewis
  • Technology & Science

    Wolf Evolution and “Settled Science”

    19 June, 2017

    Ricki Lewis reframes a discussion about wolf taxonomy into a discussion about the evidence for so-called "climate change."

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    Ricki Lewis
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