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Some climate activists advocate large-scale tree-planting campaigns in forests around the world to suck up heat-trapping carbon dioxide and help rein in climate change.
But in a Perspectives article scheduled for publication May 21 in the journal
Science, a University of Michigan climate scientist and his University of Arizona colleague say the idea of planting trees as a substitute for the direct reduction of greenhouse gas emissions could be a pipe dream. We can t plant our way out of the climate crisis, said Arizona s David Breshears, a top expert on tree mortality and forest die-off in the West. His co-author is Jonathan Overpeck, dean of the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability and an expert on paleoclimate and climate-vegetation interactions.
U-M study: Exposure to common herbicides linked to premature births
Chemicals found in widely used herbicides like Roundup may cause preterm births
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A new study from the University of Michigan has found a connection between exposure to widely used herbicides and premature births.
The University of Michigan conducted a nested case-control study among a cohort of pregnant women in northern Puerto Rico that examined the connection between exposure to a chemical found in herbicides and preterm births as part of ongoing research of contamination threats. The study, published Wednesday, found that women in the later months of their pregnancy had an increased risk for premature birth if exposed to the chemical glyphosate, which is found in weed killer Roundup and other herbicides.
University of Michigan: Severe COVID cases likely to be followed by long-haul symptoms
Meredith Bruckner, Community News Producer, All About Ann Arbor
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Answering COVID vaccine questions: Will the vaccine help people with COVID long-haul symptoms? Does the vaccine make you contagious?
ANN ARBOR – People who become severely ill from COVID-19 are more likely to experience persistent symptoms, according to a new study by the University of Michigan.
Individuals who experience lingering symptoms long after their infection are known as long-haulers, and the findings underscore the critical need to identify and treat these patients.
Common long-haul symptoms, also referred to as post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) include shortness of breath, extreme fatigue and continuous loss of smell or taste.
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AI helps assess patient s risk of regenerative outcomes after treatment of peri-implantitis
Peri-implantitis, a condition where tissue and bone around dental implants becomes infected, besets roughly one-quarter of dental implant patients, and currently there s no reliable way to assess how patients will respond to treatment of this condition.
To that end, a team led by the University of Michigan School of Dentistry developed a machine learning algorithm, a form of artificial intelligence, to assess an individual patient s risk of regenerative outcomes after surgical treatments of peri-implantitis.
The algorithm is called FARDEEP, which stands for Fast and Robust Deconvolution of Expression Profiles. In the study, researchers used FARDEEP to analyze tissue samples from a group of patients with peri-implantitis who were receiving reconstructive therapy. They quantified the abundance of harmful bacteria and certain infection fighting immune cells in each sample.