| Title | | 1 |
| Editorial | | 3 |
| Content | | 4 |
| Humour | Paul the Postdoc | 6 |
| News | Wellcome Image Awards 2008 / Confidentiality of peer review / Neuroscience peer review consortium / New journal for "dark data" / "Despeciation" of two bacterial species into one / Research letter from ... Czech Republic: Beer is bad | 6 |
| Opinion | Observations of The Owl (11): Trapped | 16 |
| Analysis | Scientific espionage | 18 |
| Analysis | The European Science Foundation (ESF) | 22 |
| Analysis | A plea for James Watson | 26 |
| Journal Club | Geneva/Switzerland Circadian clock of liver cells | 28 |
| Journal Club | Tartu/Estonia Regulation of autoimmune disease prevention | 30 |
| Journal Club | Sandnes/Norway Immune evasion of lamb pathogens | 32 |
| Humour | One fine day in the lab (7): Pipetting robot | 33 |
| Publication Statistics | Evolutionary biology in Europe | 34 |
| Publication Statistics | Don't be misled by citation figures! (11): Cling Together, Swing Together | 37 |
| Analysis | Career strategies for young European scientists (XI), Brain gain schemes in the Western Balkans | 41 |
| Biobiz | Close-Up: Baltic Boom | 42 |
| Biobiz | Biotech mergers | 46 |
| Biobiz | Shifting clinical trials into the 3rd world | 47 |
| Biobiz | News | 48 |
| Methods | Bench philosophy (12): Managing time in the Lab | 50 |
| Methods | Tips and tricks of the trade: Control of Laboratory devices with embedded systems | 52 |
| Products | Product Survey, Lab-on-a-chip products (Microfluidic Chip Technology) | 53 |
| Products | New products | 57 |
| Books | The Impact Factor of Scientific and Scholarly Journals. By Tibor Braun (ed.) | 58 |
| Books | Subcellular Proteomics. By Eric Bertrand and Michel Faupel (eds.) | 59 |
| Humour | Superdoc (5) | 66 |
| Back Cover | Back Cover | 67 |
