| Title | | 1 |
| Editorial | | 3 |
| Content | | 4 |
| Humour | Paul the Postdoc | 6 |
| News | "Hoaxed by a nonsense paper / Rescuing niche research areas / Recently awarded /
New research centres / Research indicators viewed from Austria / Upward growing roots
" | 6 |
| Opinion | "Research letter from ... Denmark: Praying for Dopamine
" | 12 |
| Opinion | "Observations of The Owl (18): I’m a Dino (Hear me ROAR!)
" | 13 |
| Analysis | "Origin of Life: How did the first biomolecules form? Old discussions and new views
" | 14 |
| Analysis | "Proteomics: Protein expert Thierry Rabilloud talks about still unfulfilled expectations in proteomics
" | 20 |
| Analysis | Gourmet Genomics (2): Will genomic efforts help to reveal why truffles are such an expensive delicacy? | 24 |
| Journal Club | Aberystwyth/Wales: Robot ‘Adam’ – the next step in research automation | 28 |
| Journal Club | Dublin/Ireland: Toll-like receptors in innate immunity | 30 |
| Journal Club | Tartu/Estonia: SNPs and human genetic variation | 32 |
| Publication Statistics | Reproductive biomedicine in Europe | 34 |
| Publication Statistics | Don’t be misled by citation figures! (17): No Significant Advantage | 37 |
| Analysis | Career strategies for young European scientists (XVII): Doing a PhD (or more) in France | 38 |
| Humour | One fine day in the lab (14): Stale mutants | 43 |
| Biobiz | News | 44 |
| Biobiz | Interview with Rino Rappuoli, Global Head of Novartis’s vaccine research, on influenza A/H1N1 | 46 |
| Biobiz | More news | 48 |
| Methods | Bench philosophy (19): The art of literature searches | 50 |
| Methods | Tips and tricks of the trade: HTS-cloning with System-48 | 52 |
| Products | Survey: Cell Culture Devices | 53 |
| Products | New products | 57 |
| Books | "Six-legged Soldiers, by Jeffrey Lockwood / Living with Dormice, by Sue Eden
" | 58 |
| Humour | Cartoon: Superdoc (13) | 66 |
