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The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking
I respond to the claim that the decline in cancer mortality is mostly, or almost entirely, just because of the decline in smoking.
 • Saloni Dattani
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Proteins, weird blobs that do important things
Proteins are all around us, doing amazing things to keep life going.
 • Saloni Dattani
What's new in biology: summer 2025
The first gonorrhea vaccination program, contact lenses that see infrared light, the protein behind sweet tastes, a baby cured with gene therapy, and…
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Hard Drugs, my new podcast with Jacob Trefethen, and the story of a drug that could end AIDS.
How to speed up medical innovation, how to scale it up, and how to make sure lifesaving tools reach the people who need them the most.
 • Saloni Dattani
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What's new in biology
Return of the screwworm, new DNA vaccines, gene editing at scale, and more
Published on The Works in Progress Newsletter • 
We don't have to sit back and just watch the horror unfold
This month, I signed a pledge to donate at least 10% of my lifetime income to effective charities.
 • Saloni Dattani
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Five medical breakthroughs in 2024
It's December, and time for a retrospective on some breakthroughs in medical innovation this year.
 • Saloni Dattani
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Four charts to understand causes of death across the lifespan: A dataviz walkthrough
The key question I ask myself while making data visualization: What question am I trying to answer?
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Recommendations
Asimov Press
Asimov Press
Asimov Press
The Works in Progress Newsletter
The Works in Progress Newsletter
Works in Progress
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes
Age of Invention, by Anton Howes
Anton Howes
Sustainability by numbers
Sustainability by numbers
Hannah Ritchie
Consumer Surplus
Consumer Surplus
Sam Bowman
Organisations I work for
Our World in Data
Works in Progress
Newsletters I recommend
Asimov Press
Consumer Surplus
by Sam Bowman
Traditions of Conflict
by Will Buckner
What's New Under the Sun
by Matt Clancy
Notes on Growth
by Sam Dumitriu
Atlas of Wonders and Monsters
by Étienne Fortier-Dubois
FreakTakes
by Eric Gilliam
Age of Invention
by Anton Howes
Century of Biology
by Elliot Hershberg
Your Local Epidemiologist
by Katelyn Jetelina
Health Nerd
by Gideon M-K
Deplatform Disease
by Edward Nirenberg
Get Down and Shruti
by Shruti Rajagopalan
Science Fictions
by Stuart Ritchie
Sustainability by numbers
by Hannah Ritchie
Baldwin
by Ben Southwood
Blogs I recommend
The 100 CI
by Anne Scheel, Ruben Arslan, Malte Elson & Julia Rohrer
Absolutely Maybe
by Hilda Bastian
Bartosz Ciechanowski's blog
gcbias
by Graham Coop
statmodeling
by Andrew Gelman
In The Pipeline
by Derek Lowe
Jacob Trefethen's blog
Data Colada
by Uri Simonsohn, Leif Nelson & Joe Simmons
Podcasts I recommend
Conversations with Tyler
Development and Research
Everything Hertz
Hear This Idea
Meet the Microbiologist
Rationally Speaking
The Studies Show
Tides of History
Trade Talks
Ukraine: The Latest
Volts
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