"Enteral ventilation" may one day help those with respiratory issuesEvery year, an event that prestigious journal Nature has dubbed “the highlight of the scientific calendar” takes place: the Ig Nobel awards. A lighthearted twist on the better-known Nobel prizes, the ceremony is dedicated to research that makes you “laugh, and then think”. And in 2024, the top physiology spot went to the team behind a “butt breathing” theory. The paper (Mammalian Enteral Ventilation Ameliorates Respiratory Failure), which won “for discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus,” was published in 2021.But recent further rese