| Title | | 1 |
| Editorial | | 3 |
| Content | | 4 |
| Humour | Paul the Postdoc | 6 |
| News | Fake conferences / Image manipulation / Recently awarded / Strategical plans from the European research area board (ERAB) / Genes from junk | 6 |
| Opinion | Research letter from ...England: The Cat is Boss | 12 |
| Opinion | Observations of The Owl (20): Valuable Vestiges | 14 |
| Analysis | Life Sciences in Luxembourg
(1) Not long ago Luxembourg didn’t even have a university, now the small country wants to make it big in health sciences and biomedicine | 16 |
| Analysis | Life Sciences in Luxembourg(2) Rudi Balling, new director of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, talks about why Luxembourg is a great place to pursue a systemic approach to life sciences | 18 |
| Analysis | Is the grass really greener in foreign pastures? | 20 |
| Analysis | Scientific misconduct -
Honesty is a virtue but how far will some scientists go for success? | 24 |
| Journal Club | Bergen/Norway Role of a novel compartment in post-ER trafficking | 28 |
| Journal Club | Ljubljana/Slovenia New techniques for fast bacterial transformations | 30 |
| Journal Club | Cantabria/Spain Regulation of limb morphogenesis | 32 |
| Humour | One fine day in the lab: Haggis Assay | 33 |
| Analysis | Career strategies for young European scientists (XIX) - Doing a PhD (or more) in Spain | 34 |
| Publication Statistics | Plant and animal ecology in Europe | 40 |
| Publication Statistics | Don’t be misled by citation figures! (19): Confusing Consortia | 43 |
| Biobiz | News | 44 |
| Biobiz | Interview with Jean-Sébastien Cleiftie, investment manager, on tax-advantaged funds for start-ups | 46 |
| Biobiz | Academic sponsorship - How reticent are European universities about exploring opportunities for private funding? | 48 |
| Biobiz | Close-up: Perfoming biotechnology on the banks of the Adriatic Sea - Women at work at Italian start-up Bioaesis (Jesi/Ancona) | 52 |
| Methods | Tips and tricks of the trade: The free alignment programme STRAP | 55 |
| Methods | Bench philosophy (21): Patch clamp guidelines | 56 |
| Products | Product survey: Protein expression systems | 58 |
| Products | New products | 64 |
| Books | Lottery for readers: Unravel a brainteaser and win a marvellous wall calendar! | 65 |
| Books | The Cambridge Companion to “The Origin of Species”. By M. Ruse & R. J. Richards (Eds.) / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor. By Colin Tudge / Experimental Heart. By Jennifer Rohn | 66 |
| Humour | Cartoon: Superdoc (15) | 74 |
