{"id":289359,"date":"2026-02-13T13:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/289359\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:29:17","slug":"time100-health-takanori-takebe-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/289359\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME100 Health: Takanori Takebe | TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text mb-6 self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Long before the COVID pandemic, Dr. Takanori Takebe knew how damaging mechanical ventilators could be. He had seen them used on his father, who has had respiratory problems. It was so painful and invasive that Takebe, a doctor and biomedical researcher at Cincinnati Children\u2019s Hospital also affiliated with several institutions in Japan, decided to look for better ways. This year, he and his colleagues <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41118773\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published the results<\/a> of a clinical trial that demonstrates the first step in a surprising solution: enteral ventilation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-text mb-6 self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Lungs are only one way to get oxygen into the blood; other organs, while not specialized at the task, can still provide a way in. In Takebe\u2019s trial, which came after years of animal testing and was to assess safety in humans, people received infusions of an oxygen-carrying substance called perfluorodecalin via their anuses. Side effects were minimal, and the scientists concluded that perfluorodecalin was a promising substance deserving further study. The next step? Seeing whether the fluid can raise the blood oxygen levels of subjects in controlled experiments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">\u201cMy dad is very excited about that,\u201d says Takebe. \u201cHe would like to volunteer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long before the COVID pandemic, Dr. Takanori Takebe knew how damaging mechanical ventilators could be. He had seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49043,5587,163,521,85,46,16086,1619,49045,12246,146428],"class_list":{"0":"post-289359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-franchise","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-list","15":"tag-magazine","16":"tag-special-project","17":"tag-sponsorshipblock","18":"tag-time100-health-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}