Skip to content
RichseenAtlas← AtlasSign in

Cynthia Kenyon

person · earth · San Francisco, California

American molecular biologist, at the University of California San Francisco for most of her academic career and later a vice-president at Calico, the Alphabet-funded ageing research company founded in 2013. Her laboratory's 1993 Nature paper showed that a mutation in daf-2 more than doubles the lifespan of C. elegans while leaving the animals visibly healthy and active, and that the effect requires daf-16. The finding did two things: it demonstrated that lifespan is under genetic control rather than being simple wear, and it converted ageing from a descriptive subject into an experimental one. Kenyon has been careful in print about the distance between a nematode and a person, which distinguishes her from a good deal of the commentary her result generated.

Read in · 1

Evidence · 1
Timeline

No dated observations are stored for this object. Atlas shows what was observed and when — it does not infer a history.

Connections · 1
Assembled narrative · 1

Assembled from 14 blocks · 1 evidence · 7 related

  1. Story
  2. American molecular biologist, at the University of California San Francisco for most of her academic career and later a vice-president at Calico, the Alphabet-funded ageing research company founded in 2013. Her laboratory's 1993 Nature paper showed that a mutation in daf-2 more than doubles the lifespan of C. elegans while leaving the animals visibly healthy and active, and that the effect requires daf-16. The finding did two things: it demonstrated that lifespan is under genetic control rather than being simple wear, and it converted ageing from a descriptive subject into an experimental one. Kenyon has been careful in print about the distance between a nematode and a person, which distinguishes her from a good deal of the commentary her result generated.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Cynthia Kenyon
  5. A single-gene mutation doubles nematode lifespan
  6. Connections
  7. A single-gene mutation doubles nematode lifespan
  8. A single-gene mutation doubles nematode lifespan
  9. Cynthia Kenyon
  10. Cynthia Kenyon
  11. Caenorhabditis elegans
  12. Model organism lifespan research
  13. Evidence
  14. Supports the daf-2 lifespan doubling and its dependence on daf-16. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session.
Close the narrative
Observed changes · 0

No public Signals are attached to this object. Signals show what changed and when it was observed — never a direction or a rank.

Actions

Read the assembled narrativeContinue in StudioOpen TwinTwin does not start a decision from this kind of object.ShareSaveSaved objects are part of the authenticated projection, which is declared and not yet built.

/atlas?object=PERSON_CYNTHIA_KENYON&experience=PERSON_CYNTHIA_KENYON