Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner
Hundreds of thousands of people die from malaria each year, but it took 141 years to develop a vaccine for it. Advance market commitments could speed things up next time.
Saloni Dattani
Saloni Dattani is a founding editor of Works in Progress. She’s the author of the newsletter Scientific Discovery, hosts the podcast Hard Drugs, and is an advisor to Coefficient Giving. She has a PhD in psychiatric genetics and previously worked as a project lead on health at Our World in Data.
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Real peer review has never been tried
Words by Saloni Dattani
Outdated forms of peer review create bottlenecks that slow science. But in a world where research can now circulate rapidly on the Internet, we need to develop new ways to do science in public.
Interview: Ted Nordhaus on ecomodernism
Words by Nick Whitaker & Saloni Dattani
Are technology and the environment friends or foes? In this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss climate policy, activism and ecomodernism with Ted Nordhaus.
The speed of science
Words by Saloni Dattani & Nathaniel Bechhofer
Critics of scientific reform say that transparency comes at the cost of speed. What can disciplines learn from each other to break away from this crisis?
The story of Viktor Zhdanov
Words by Saloni Dattani
Although Viktor Zhdanov’s name is little known today, he spearheaded one of the greatest projects in history. Who was he and what did he do?
The golden age of vaccine development
Words by Saloni Dattani
The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.