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The federal hate crime trial over the killing of Dime Doe, a transgender woman in rural South Carolina began in U.S. District Court in Columbia on Feb. 20.
/PRNewswire/ -- BD²: Breakthrough Discoveries for Thriving with Bipolar Disorder today announced its first grants, totaling $15 million, to advance scientific...
The largest study of its kind also demonstrated that the risk is shared across ethnicities. A multi-center study, led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has uncovered two previously unknown genes that are associated with schizophrenia. Furthermore, the study uncovered a third gene that
In 2006, researchers discovered that people with certain variants of the gene PCSK9 had dramatically lower cholesterol levels than the general population. Individuals with two broken copies of the gene — one from each parent — were up to 88 percent less likely to have coronary heart disease than people with functioning PCSK9 .
The main treatment for bipolar disorder, lithium, was approved a half-century ago but doesn't help all patients and has significant side effects. Little progress has been made in finding better therapies, in part because scientists don’t fully understand how the condition arises or exactly how lithium improves symptoms when it does work.