Timeline: how the field got here
Click a node to read what it unlocked and what it left open. Use the branch buttons to follow one line of work. All 30 milestones are also written out in order, so nothing here depends on the graphic.
Oliver's mTOR Atlas · Timeline
How mTOR biology actually grew
Every node is a landmark study. Every edge is a claim about what one study made possible for the next. The vertical axis is real time, so the empty stretches are part of the argument. Nodes carry the Atlas's own evidence tiers: blue is direct human evidence. Count the blue.
This is an editorial reconstruction, not a citation network. Nothing on this canvas is
computed from citation data, co-citation, or any bibliometric measure. Each edge is a judgement
made by the curator — “study A is what made study B askable” — written down
so it can be argued with. Two researchers reading the same papers could reasonably draw a
different tree, and the absence of an edge is not evidence that no influence existed. Treat the
shape as an interpretation of how the field moved, and the nodes and their metadata
(PubMed-verified) as the checkable part.
The 4 dashed nodes are where a branch stops because nobody has run the experiment yet. They are explained on what the field doesn't know.
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