Saloni Dattani
Person on 4 sites
Researcher and science writer; co-founder and editor at Works in Progress, formerly Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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4 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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16 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Medical innovation is at a point of divergence: the tools are improving rapidly, but the ambition to use them has fallen behind. (opens korrents.com)
“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.”
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Innovation happens as a continuous stream each year rather than as sporadic breakthroughs driven by chance. (opens korrents.com)
“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…”
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The pace of medical innovation can be sped up or slowed down by policy, funding and institutional choices. (opens korrents.com)
“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…”
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Medical innovation is at a point of divergence: the tools are improving rapidly, but the ambition to use them has fallen behind. (opens korrents.com)
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9 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (opens rcmnd.app)
“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 Art (opens rcmnd.app)
“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 Breaker (opens rcmnd.app)
“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…”
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Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (opens rcmnd.app)