| Title | | 1 |
| Editorial | | 3 |
| Content | | 4 |
| Humour | Paul the Postdoc | 6 |
| News | Author identification numbers / Doubtful funding policy / Recently awarded / Fake journals / Chromatin lenses | 6 |
| Opinion | Research letter from ... Turkey: Beware of Medics Bearing Mobile Phones | 12 |
| Opinion | Observations of The Owl (17): Goodbye, Genes! | 14 |
| Analysis | Animal research: The difficult revision of the EU directive on animal experiments | 16 |
| Analysis | Synthetic biology: Two experts from science and industry talk about synthetic biology: concepts, status quo and visions, as well as dangers and risks | 20 |
| Analysis | Gourmet Genomics (1): High throughput biology is reaching the organisms essential to the production of gourmet food. Part 1 summarises the efforts on cheese and wine. | 26 |
| Journal Club | Leiden/Netherlands: Pacemaking in biological rhythms | 32 |
| Journal Club | Vienna/Austria: Notch signalling in Drosophila | 34 |
| Journal Club | Bratislava/Slovakia: Peptide hormones in insects | 36 |
| Journal Club | Cartoon: One Fine Day in the Lab | 37 |
| Publication Statistics | Parasitology research in Europe | 38 |
| Publication Statistics | Don’t be misled by citation figures! (16): Self-Citations Stink ... but Rarely | 41 |
| Analysis | Career strategies for young European scientists (XVI): Doing a PhD in Finland | 42 |
| Biobiz | News | 44 |
| Biobiz | Swine flu spurs vaccine makers: Turbo-Serum under way | 46 |
| Biobiz | Close-up: The Jellyfish’s Shiny Interior - Aequotech of medieval Ferrara, Italy, is developing molecularly-engineered sensors | 50 |
| Biobiz | More news | 53 |
| Methods | Bench philosophy (18): on badly and well-kept laboratory notebooks | 54 |
| Methods | Tips and tricks of the trade: Bradford assay reloaded | 56 |
| Products | Survey: Microscopes | 57 |
| Products | New products | 62 |
| Books | Nobels, photographed by Peter Badge | 63 |
| Humour | Cartoon: Superdoc (11) | 70 |
