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Scientific Discovery

Saloni Dattani

Tracing the steps towards scientific progress.

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Medical breakthroughs in 2025

If you fell unconscious in 1950, no one around you would know how to perform CPR: it wouldn’t be invented for another 10 years.1 Or take type 1 diabetes, where survival would involve injecting yourself every day with a thick glass syringe o...

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Saloni's guide to data visualization

Until a few years ago, I thought data visualization wasn’t very interesting. At best, it was a nice bonus in my work. I preferred writing because I found it gave me the space to get across the details and clarifications that people would of...

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Proteins, weird blobs that do important things

Proteins are all around us, and they do amazing things to keep life going. So I’ve just released a new podcast episode of Hard Drugs with about the wonderful world of proteins.

You’ll learn about proteins in our body, why cells are like c...

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Hard Drugs, my new podcast with Jacob Trefethen, and the story of a drug that could end AIDS.

Today, I’m launching a podcast with Jacob Trefethen called Hard Drugs. Our first episode is called Lenacapavir: the miracle drug that could end AIDS.


Sometime last year, when I talked to Sam Bowman, he suggested starting a science p...

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The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking

I often write about and create data visualizations of long-term trends in health and mortality.

One example is a chart showing the decline in US cancer death rates since the 1990s, which is shown below. It’s not an enormous decline, but i...

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    I write the newsletter Scientific Discovery. I'm a co-founder of Works in Progress, host the podcast Hard Drugs, and advise Coefficient Giving on clinical trial reform.

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