Bonnie Petrie
Bonnie Petrie covers bioscience and medicine for Texas Public Radio.
Bonnie grew up on the Canadian border in northern New York, but has happily called Texas home for 15 years. She is a 2017 Texas Radio Hall of Fame nominee in recognition of her work in Houston and Dallas before moving to San Antonio.
Most recently, Bonnie worked in Los Angeles reporting for public radio stations KPCC and KCRW. She is mom to a middle-schooler and spends her free time solving family mysteries through genetic genealogy.
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Asylum-seeking migrants often make it to San Antonio without having the opportunity to bathe for weeks beforehand. Similarly, there are residents of San...
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The crisis on the southern border has been driven by a surge of migrants from Central America. But hundreds of African migrants have crossed the border in recent weeks, many to seek asylum.
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The Department of Defense is funding research in San Antonio to see if a new vaccine can prevent birth defects in babies of women exposed to the Zika...
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Teen-aged siblings who were both on a kidney transplant list in San Antonio received organs from the same donor on the same day.
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"It's been the best year of my life," says a survivor of last year's Texas mass shooting. The trauma allowed him to find a way to prioritize his relationship with God and his children.