| Title | | 1 |
| Editorial | | 3 |
| Content | | 4 |
| Humour | Paul the Postdoc | 6 |
| News | News | 6 |
| Analysis | Genetic testing, European regulations, guidelines and scientific problems | 14 |
| Interview | Neurobiologist Steven Rose talks about the social implications of modern brain research | 20 |
| Humour | Incredible Science (5): Dripping Pitch | 25 |
| Opinion | Observations of The Owl (5): Cat-astrophy | 26 |
| Analysis | (Not only) PhD Careers/The seventh EU research framework programme (FP7) -- part I | 28 |
| Journal Club | Rehovot/Israel Chickpeas and the origin of human farming | 32 |
| Journal Club | Leuven/Belgium Banana diversity and proteomics | 34 |
| Humour | One fine day in the lab (1): The Ransom Note | 35 |
| Journal Club | Copenhagen/Denmark Molecular Evolution, RNAs and compexity | 36 |
| Publication Statistics | Plant biology in Europe | 38 |
| Publication Statistics | Don't be misled by citation figures! (5): The Lucky Punch | 41 |
| Biobiz | Parallel Trade, Free movement of pharmaceutical goods in the EU? An illusion! | 42 |
| Biobiz | New Series! The Bizarre World of Health Care (1): What price a drug? | 45 |
| Biobiz | Close-up: Biotechnology in Spain/Protein purification specialist Biomedal (Sevilla)/A small selection of Spanish biotech companies | 46 |
| Biobiz | News and Opinion | 50 |
| Methods | Bench philosophy (5): The secret desires of the men of methods | 52 |
| Methods | Tips and tricks of the trade: Post processing of biological data with an open source programme | 54 |
| Products | Thermocyclers: Speed up the heat! | 55 |
| Products | New products | 60 |
| Books | Sex, Drugs & DNA. Science's Taboos Confronted. By Michael Stebbins | 61 |
| Humour | Cartoon: Gene Royale (5) | 66 |
