Ig Nobel Prize: Japanese research team wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Physiology | NHK September 13, 2024 7:08 AM The winners of the Ig Nobel Prize, a parody of the Nobel Prize given to unique research, have been announced, and this year a research team from Japan and other countries won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Physiology for “discovering that animals such as pigs have the ability to breathe from their anus.” This is the 18th consecutive year that a Japanese person has won the award. The Ig Nobel Prize was established in 1991 by an American scientific magazine as a parody of the Nobel Prize, and is awarded to research that makes people laugh and think. This year’s winners were announced on the 13th (Japan time), and the research team led by Professor Takebe Takanori of Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Osaka University won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The research team conducted experiments in which they pumped a special liquid containing a high concentration of oxygen into the intestines of pigs and other animals that were having difficulty breathing through their lungs. As a result, the oxygen levels in the blood of all the animals increased significantly, and it was confirmed that, under certain conditions, the symptoms of respiratory failure in pigs improved. The organizers praised the award for “discovering that many mammals have the ability to breathe through their anus,” and this marks the 18th consecutive year that a Japanese person has won the award. In addition, nine other researches were awarded, including a well-known American psychologist who conducted research during World War II into a guided missile in which pigeons trained to recognize targets were placed inside the warhead and launched, and a research team from the Netherlands and other countries who conducted an experiment in which they actually tossed a coin more than 350,000 times to demonstrate that there is a bias in the probability of the coin landing on heads or tails. Professor Takebe specializes in “regenerative medicine” and announces a series of groundbreaking results Although the theme of this research is intestinal breathing, Professor Takebe Takanori (37) actually specializes in “regenerative medicine.” In this field, where researchers from around the world are competing fiercely, we have announced a series of groundbreaking results. It was 11 years ago, at the age of 26, that he and a collaborator became the first to succeed in creating a cell mass with liver functions from human IPS cells, attracting worldwide attention. (Omitted) *See source for full text.
>>1 > ▽The “Probability Prize” was awarded to a research team from the Netherlands and other countries that conducted an experiment in which they actually threw a coin more than 350,000 times to show that there is a bias in the probability of the coin landing on heads or tails.
The original paper states that “we have confirmed that when the set side is random, the probability of the coin landing on heads or tails is the same,” so it is incorrect to say that there is a bias in the probability of the coin landing. It is more of a conditional probability that “if you check the set side before tossing, the probability of the same side landing is high.”
It was a piece in a boys’ magazine about shocking topics around the world, and there was a picture of what looked like an Indian ascetic burying his head in the ground and breathing through his anus for what seemed to be hours or days.
>>33 Isn’t it more likely that specialists will be treating animals with respiratory failure? They probably did it on animals with reduced lung function.
The Japanese government should be given an Ig Nobel Prize for continuing to hand out money to the elderly while young people suffer from poverty and are unable to properly marry or raise children.
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