Jean-Pierre Jost

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World production of plastic is 359 millions T/year.What could be the best biodegradable product to replace plastic?

Mediterranean get on average 600 000 T plastic/year and we consume some 5 gr plastic (micro- plastic particles) per week, the equivalent of a credit card

06 June 2019 2,612 5 View

Are the climatic changes influencing the migration patterns of birds ?

Some birds do not migrate anymore or do not go so far south. Have you some examples to be cited thank you for your answers

05 May 2019 2,747 12 View

How seriously should we take the UFO sightings?

In the USA, during a period of 17 years some 12 000 UFO sighting have been reported. What are they really? Any concrete evidence about them? If any where do they com from?

05 May 2019 1,779 3 View

Do you think that there is a lack of critical information about transgenic plants (food) among the general public ?

If yes, how to get about this problem? How to inform the consumer about the benefit and risk of "transgenic" food ?

04 April 2019 4,278 12 View

Many people are against transgenic plants, do you think that we can nourish an increasing world population without them?

Should you not want them, what are the realistic alternatives?

04 April 2019 8,420 23 View

Do nanobeads represent a serious danger for our health ?

Agriculture, industry and medicine make use of nanobeads. Nanotechnology is an important emerging industry with one trillion US dollars /year.

03 March 2019 8,777 5 View

Arable land is diminishing while population is incresing, is the vertical agriculture a good solution to increase the production of vegetables?

I think that such a solution for the production of vegetables could be of benefit in peri-urban areas What is your opinion or do you have other suggestions?

02 February 2019 7,077 1 View

Human brain can take command of rat brain. What do you think about mind control?

Chinese scientists connect a human brain and a "rat cyborg" brain together allowing a wireless mind control of the rat's movements.... published in Nature's Scientific Reports on Feb 4 2019.

02 February 2019 6,953 3 View

Is it acceptable that a director of a institute or a big research unit put his name on every single publication of his institution ?

It occurred to me that many directors of big research units with several independent groups or institute put his name on every single publication in spite of the fact that he does not read all of...

02 February 2019 9,578 20 View

Should you decide to decrease drastically CO2 emission within the next 10 years what would be your priorities, what would be the economic consequence?

Where should you start and how: road and air traffic, burning of coal and oil. Offering alternatives at an affordable price? But certainly not by increasing the taxes----

02 February 2019 5,683 3 View

Do you believe that robots capable of doing diagnosis and suggest therapy are going to help/replace classical medical doctors?

With artificial intelligence, robots are more and more capable to do "deep learning" and from the experience with many thousand cases suggest the best possible way to treat patients...

02 February 2019 5,003 12 View

What concrete evidence do we have about the toxicity of the herbicide Roundup (glyphosat) on humans ?

In some countries we find a correlation between the incidence of cancer in humans and the use of the herbicide Roundup.Do we have concrete facts about a cause-effect relationship between these two...

02 February 2019 4,058 5 View

How can sounds (music) stimulate plant growth?

According to Gagliano et al 2012 (Towards understanding plant bioacoustics published in Trend in Plant Science, 17: 323-325, 2012) maize seeds emit clics during germination. When recorded and...

02 February 2019 2,309 6 View

Body language, do human pheromones play a role?

"some scientists suspect that the armpit could be sending all kind of signals from casual flirtation to sounding the alarm"... Scientific American, Mind Volume 25, issue 3, may 2014

02 February 2019 1,672 1 View

Do you think that we should teach students (lectures/workshops) the proper use of logic in science?

Before starting any project they should first ask the good questions then go on with the hard work and avoid to follow the beaten tracks(me-to-ism).

01 January 2019 2,578 2 View

Do you think that the nanotechnologie is going to solve the problem of the application of bio-pesticides (pheromones)?

One of the problem of pheromones is their constant diffusion during the period of reproduction of insects. Could nano fibers containing the pheromones solve this problem?

01 January 2019 771 1 View

Should we teach graduate students all about translational research (giving examples)?

Many ingenious new techniques or promising results could have soon or later practical applications (Medicine, agriculture, industry)

01 January 2019 9,878 5 View

For the bioprotection of plants against insects, is it conceivable to create transgenic plants producing pheromones (sex or alarm)?

Such a procedure could circumvent the cost of pheromones traps and assure throughout the vegetation season a constant diffusion of the pheromones (repelling of confusing the breeding of insects...

01 January 2019 4,950 8 View

For the control of insect populations could the use of synthetic pheromones replace the transgenic plants producing Bt toxins?

Many people are against genetically modified plants to control pest populations. An alternative could be the use of insect pheromones to decrease the population of insects destroying crops.

01 January 2019 3,491 10 View