Saloni Dattani
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
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Scientific DiscoveryNewsletter Her newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
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- I gave a TED talk?! 17 Aug 2026
- Medical breakthroughs in 2025 28 Dec 2025
- Saloni's guide to data visualization 9 Dec 2025
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- Proteins, weird blobs that do important things 4 Sept 2025
- Hard Drugs, my new podcast with Jacob Trefethen, and the story of a drug that could end AIDS. 11 Jun 2025
- The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking 24 Apr 2025
- We don't have to sit back and just watch the horror unfold 11 Apr 2025
- Five medical breakthroughs in 2024 9 Dec 2024
- Four charts to understand causes of death across the lifespan: A dataviz walkthrough 20 Apr 2024
- Many great things you missed this year 16 Mar 2024
- Seven things you didn't know about life expectancy 2 Jan 2024
- Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner (audio recording) 20 Dec 2023
- A slice of great things you missed this year 3 Nov 2023
- Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner (bonus content) 10 Sept 2023
- A fraction of great things you missed this year 9 Jul 2023
- What does it mean when fewer people die? 1 Jun 2023
- How many people die from snakebites? 11 Apr 2023
- The success of chickenpox vaccines 20 Mar 2023
- Everything great you missed since November 24 Jan 2023
- Everything great I've read in the last fortnight 6 Nov 2022
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Hard DrugsPodcast Podcast on medical innovation she co-hosts with Jacob Trefethen.
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Hard Drugs Recommends
A History of Immunology Loved
I loved this book. I enjoyed learning about the early, often wildly speculative theories of immunity, how blood groups and allergies were discovered
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The Code Breaker Liked
I mistakenly expected this to be a somewhat shallow, generic popular science book, but it was a very thorough account of how CRISPR gene editing emerged from decades of obscure basic research into bacterial immune systems.
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The Butchering Art Liked
Joseph Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic techniques in surgery, had a fascinating life that I didn’t know anything about until I read this book.
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Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech Loved
This amazing book traces the development of genetic engineering, and how Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson turned the science into a commercial product by developing recombinant insulin.
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Adobe Illustrator Uses
I then export the graph as an .svg file, and open it up on Adobe Illustrator or Figma
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Figma Uses
I then export the graph as an .svg file, and open it up on Adobe Illustrator or Figma
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ggplot2 Uses
I download the data and write up code in R , using ggplot2 to create a graph
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Datawrapper Liked
I instead use Datawrapper to create interactive charts very quickly. They follow great data visualization principles, have influenced my work, and their styles look great.
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