| Title | | 1 |
| Editorial | | 3 |
| Content | | 4 |
| Humour | Paul the Postdoc | 6 |
| News | New bibliometric tool / Women's payment in life sciences / Europe's largest biomedical research centre / Recently awarded / "Upward vertical" virus transmission | 6 |
| Opinion | Observations of The Owl (9): Caught in the Net | 12 |
| Analysis | French research reform (I) | 14 |
| Analysis | Cell cultures: Often revealed to be classified wrongly/Contamination | 20 |
| Humour | Incredible Science (9): Chickens Prefer Human Beauty | 23 |
| Journal Club | Split/Croatia Modeling of apolipoprotein B (apoB) | 24 |
| Journal Club | Vienna/Austria Plant transformation by Agrobacterium | 26 |
| Journal Club | Lisbon/Portugal Rate of beneficial mutations in E. coli | 28 |
| Humour | One fine day in the lab (6): Lab carnival | 29 |
| Analysis | Career strategies for young European scientists (IX) Swiss Fraenkli | 30 |
| Publication Statistics | Human genetics in Europe | 34 |
| Publication Statistics | Don't be misled by citation figures! (9): Speed matters | 37 |
| Biobiz | Sweden: Biotechnology in Sweden/Overviw | 38 |
| Biobiz | Sweden: Location of Swedish biotechnology: Mostly in the South | 40 |
| Biobiz | Sweden: At a farm in Sweden's north, Agrisera focuses on the production of antibodies | 41 |
| Biobiz News | Several European biotech companies have landed big fish | 42 |
| Biobiz News | British 'universal' flu vaccine generates media bubble | 43 |
| Biobiz News | Industry spends twice as much on pushing pills as it does on R&D | 44 |
| Biobiz Opinion | The Bizarre World of Health Care (5): Sleazy Commendation | 45 |
| Methods | Bench philosophy (10): UK Biobank | 46 |
| Methods | Tips and tricks of the trade: REACH regulating the handling of chemicals inside the EU | 48 |
| Products | Product Survey: Gene Silencing and siRNA: The Silent Revolution | 49 |
| Products | New products | 55 |
| Books | Glorified Dinosaurs. By Luis M. Chiappe | 56 |
| Humour | Cartoon: Superdoc (3) | 62 |
