| Title | | 1 |
| Editorial | | 3 |
| Content | | 4 |
| Humour | Paul the Postdoc | 6 |
| News | News | 6 |
| Humour | Incredible Science (6): Happy with Your Job? | 11 |
| Opinion | Observations of The Owl (6): The Ideal Referee | 14 |
| Analysis | The Netherlands' new science minister Ronald Plasterk is tranformed from highly productive researcher to government minister | 16 |
| Analysis | Ghost writers and ghost authors in medical papers | 18 |
| Analysis | (Not only) PhD Careers/The seventh EU research framework programme (FP7) -- part II: Marie Curie actions | 22 |
| Journal Club | Marseille/France Cell migration and neurogenesis | 26 |
| Journal Club | Innsbruck/Austria The multiple uses of Aspirin | 28 |
| Humour | One fine day in the lab (2): Nothing Wrong | 29 |
| Journal Club | Barcelona/Spain (plus Central Africa) Ebola infections in gorillas | 30 |
| Publication Statistics | Pharmacology and pharmacy in Europe | 32 |
| Publication Statistics | Don't be misled by citation figures! (6): Bad Timing | 35 |
| Biobiz | News | 36 |
| Biobiz | Interview with Francesco Paolo Pilato from Bio3 Research (Milan, Italy) | 40 |
| Biobiz | Close-up: French Open in the Alsace/Polyplus-transfection (Illkirch/Strasbourg) | 42 |
| Biobiz | News | 45 |
| Biobiz | The Bizarre World of Health Care (2): Innovative Claptrap | 47 |
| Products | Product Survey: Genotyping instruments: Every Single Nucleotide Counts | 48 |
| Products | New products | 52 |
| Methods | Tips and tricks of the trade: Cyber-Protocols a new way to learn science via the Internet? | 53 |
| Methods | Bench philosophy (6): Seven golden rules for perfect picture presentation | 54 |
| Books | Dawn of the Dinosaurs. By Nicolas Fraser and Douglas Henderson | 56 |
| Books | Proteomics for Biological Discovery. By Timothy Veenstra and John Yates | 57 |
| Humour | Cartoon: Gene Royale (6) | 66 |
