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The following list of Coffee Breaks is organized according to the NCBI bioinformatics resource featured in the tutorial that accompanies the story. The tutorials within Coffee Breaks may showcase more than one NCBI resource, so the same Coffee Break may appear under more than one resource category.
What you see is not what you get!DNA barcoding is helping scientists unveil nature's most hidden diversity
August 06, 2005
Aging and the Human Brain
January 12, 2005
Tuberous sclerosis complex in flies too? a fly homolog to TSC2, called gigas, plays a role in cell cycle regulation July 27, 2000
Mutations and blood clots: how point mutations in clotting factor genes conspire to increase the risk of thrombosis April 26, 2000
Viruses provide direction on the plant information superhighway: a viral movement protein helps to identify a counterpart in plants December 8, 1999
How Candida albicans switches phenotype - and back again: the SIR2 silencing gene has a say in Candida's colony type November 24, 1999
PTEN and the tumor suppressor balancing act: PTEN turns out to be the first tumor suppressor to have phosphatase activity November 10, 1999
The compound eye of flies divulges evolutionary secrets: analysis of fly eye development may shed light on human eye disease September 29, 1999
The neighborhood of Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein: new clues on Alzheimer's pathology from other proteins linked to amyloid plaque formation September 15, 1999
What do Lyme disease and syphilis have in common? two pathogenic spirochetes unexpectedly share an ATP synthase September 1, 1999
Dissecting the mechanism of our internal clock: how living organisms tune in to the time of day August 18, 1999
Ubiquitin links Parkinson's disease genes: a tantalizing link between two new genes August 4, 1999
Plant genes contribute to a sexually transmitted disease? how plant genes found their way into a human parasite July 15, 1999
Ready, steady, go! a two-part switch that regulates gene expression March 12, 2001
Tuberous sclerosis complex in flies too? a fly homolog to TSC2, called gigas, plays a role in cell cycle regulation July 27, 2000
Viruses provide direction on the plant information superhighway: a viral movement protein helps to identify a counterpart in plants December 8, 1999
How Candida albicans switches phenotype - and back again: the SIR2 silencing gene has a say in Candida's colony type November 24, 1999
PTEN and the tumor suppressor balancing act: PTEN turns out to be the first tumor suppressor to have phosphatase activity November 10, 1999
The Salmonella battle plan: how Salmonella gain entry into human intestinal cells to grow and divide October 27, 1999
RNA surveillance: watching the defectives: detecting premature stop codons in mRNA halts the production of dangerous truncated proteins October 13, 1999
The compound eye of flies divulges evolutionary secrets: analysis of fly eye development may shed light on human eye disease September 29, 1999
The neighborhood of Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein: new clues on Alzheimer's pathology from other proteins linked to amyloid plaque formation September 15, 1999
What do Lyme disease and syphilis have in common? two pathogenic spirochetes unexpectedly share an ATP synthase September 1, 1999
Dissecting the mechanism of our internal clock: how living organisms tune in to the time of day August 18, 1999
Ubiquitin links Parkinson's disease genes: a tantalizing link between two new genes August 4, 1999
Plant genes contribute to a sexually transmitted disease? how plant genes found their way into a human parasite July 15, 1999
Variations on a gene: investigating the causes of iron overload August 25, 2003
Variations on a gene: investigating the causes of iron overload August 25, 2003
Variations on a gene: investigating the causes of iron overload August 25, 2003
Fluorescent timer: the E5 mutant of the red coral protein drFP583 changes its fluorescence from green to red over time January 22, 2001
The mouse that eats less but gains weight: a neuropeptide receptor, Mc3r, is shown to play a role in regulating energy stores November 6, 2000
A small fortune: small RNAs involved in the regulation of developmental timing June 5, 2002
Finding Fanconi: the hunt for the cause of autosomal dominant renal Fanconi syndrome October 22, 2001
Finding Fanconi: the hunt for the cause of autosomal dominant renal Fanconi syndrome October 22, 2001
Opening the flood gates? association of NOD2 with Crohn's disease August 6, 2001
Ready, steady, go! a two-part switch that regulates gene expressionMarch 12, 2001
Honey, I shrunk the genome: genome reduction in the leprosy bacillusApril 30, 2001
Cytosolic help for mitochondrial defects: a novel method for importing tRNA into mitochondria in order to suppress mutationsDecember 4, 2000
The beginning of the END: the EAST protein assembles a nucleoskeleton between chromosomesJune 16, 2000
Mutations and blood clots: how point mutations in clotting factor genes conspire to increase the risk of thrombosisApril 26, 2000
