Saloni Dattani
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I think we're at a point of divergence when it comes to medical innovation. Our tools are improving rapidly, but our ambitions to use them have fallen behind.
28 December 2025
From one piece Medical breakthroughs in 2025 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The best days of medicine are still ahead, but only if people choose to make them happen.Their words
I still think the best days of medicine are ahead of us, but only if we choose to make them happen.
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The pace of medical innovation can be sped up or slowed down by policy, funding and institutional choices.Their words
That stream can be sped up or slowed down by policy, funding, and institutional choices; and real progress - providing the fruits of that innovation to people who need them - takes a huge number of people and institutions working together.
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Innovation happens as a continuous stream each year rather than as sporadic breakthroughs driven by chance.Their words
People often describe innovation as a set of specific, sporadic breakthroughs that happen by pure chance or sheer determination, but it's really much more of a continuous stream every year, like the ones I've described here.
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Genentech: The Beginnings of BiotechTheir words
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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The Butchering ArtTheir words
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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The Code BreakerTheir words
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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A History of ImmunologyTheir words
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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Hard DrugsTheir words
And if you prefer podcasts, may I suggest Hard Drugs
9 December 2025
From one piece Saloni's guide to data visualization 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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People who want to become more widely read rarely think about the responsibility that comes with a larger audience.Their words
I think it's quite common for people to want to become more widely read and less common for people to think about how to deal with the responsibility it comes with.
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People with a large audience have a responsibility to get things right and acknowledge their mistakes.Their words
Your ideas can mislead other people. It's important to try to get things right and acknowledge your mistakes, especially when you have a larger audience.
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Most concepts can be understood by most people if explained clearly, even without years of expertise in a field.Their words
My view on science communication is that most concepts can be understood by most people, if explained clearly, even if they don't have years of expertise or training in a field.
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DatawrapperTheir words
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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ggplot2Their words
I download the data and write up code in R , using ggplot2 to create a graph
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FigmaTheir words
I then export the graph as an .svg file, and open it up on Adobe Illustrator or Figma
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Adobe IllustratorTheir words
I then export the graph as an .svg file, and open it up on Adobe Illustrator or Figma
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From one piece The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Finally, I’ll explain a deeper issue with the whole idea: we can’t neatly divide the causes of an outcome into slices that add up to 100%.
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In my view, without smoking, we probably would have seen cancer mortality decline much earlier.
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From one piece Seven things you didn't know about life expectancy 6 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The long decline in mortality is not guaranteed to continue: new shocks and old unsolved diseases can reverse it.Their words
None of these trends are a given.
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Women outlive men because their death rates are lower at every age, not because men die in accidents and violence.Their words
But women actually tend to live longer than men because they have lower death rates across their lifespans, which you can see in the chart below.
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Many other predictions have already been broken, as life expectancy has continued to rise.
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Every age of life is less deadly than it was for the generation before, not just childhood.Their words
Each age of our lives is less deadly than it was for previous generations.
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Life expectancy isn’t a prediction of how long people will live.
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To me, one of them is that longevity isn’t one obscure problem that needs to be ‘cracked’ in order for us to live longer.
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A world without mass child mortality does not have to be imagined, because rich countries are already living in it.Their words
I think we don’t have to imagine what a future could look like without this immense loss.
What does it mean when fewer people die?scientificdiscovery.dev
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