| Title | | 1 |
| Editorial | | 3 |
| Contents | | 4 |
| Humour | Paul the Postdoc | 6 |
| News | "Picture of the issue / Science Europe wants to change science policy in Europe / Three Dutch
universities join forces / Recently Awarded / Italian universities dare a fresh start / A synthetic
gene circuit to kill cancer cells" | 6 |
| Opinion | Research letter from ... England: Heavy Clothing Weighs You Down! | 12 |
| Opinion | Observations of The Owl (32): Ideas? What Ideas? | 14 |
| Analysis | "Brain Doping
If you want to increase your scientific output, why not try some drugs?
" | 16 |
| Humour | One fine day in the lab | 28 |
| Analysis | "Brain Imaging Techniques
How reliable is functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging? A dead fish throws up some questions" | 30 |
| Analysis | "Phylogeny
How many branches has the tree of life really grown?" | 36 |
| Journal Club | Paris/France Differences in X-chromosome inactivation between rabbits, mice and men | 40 |
| Journal Club | Budweis/Czech Republic Developing a microscope to watch cells in action | 42 |
| Journal Club | Ljubljana/Slovenia Discovering fungi with a taste for endurance | 44 |
| Publication Statistics | Aquatic biology in Europe | 46 |
| Publication Statistics | What’s behind paper retractions? (5): Banned! | 49 |
| Biobiz | "Boehringer starts biosimilar division / AM Pharma gets huge investment / Finnish Biotie buys
Italian Newron / HPV vaccine more powerful than expected / GE puts €800m into research" | 50 |
| Biobiz | "Wilful misconduct
Company’s top executive emerges as a fraudster after four years" | 53 |
| Biobiz | "Interview
with Lynn Neulinger, quality manager at Preglem, Geneva, Switzerland" | 54 |
| Biobiz | "Company portrait
Oxitec, a small British company, is combatting dengue fever by releasing sterile male
mosquitoes, the insect vector that spreads the virus" | 56 |
| Products | New products | 60 |
| Products | "Product survey: Expression vectors
" | 61 |
| Methods | Tips and tricks of the trade: Fine tuning multiple cloning sites | 69 |
| Methods | Bench philosophy (33): Reference managing programmes | 70 |
| Books | Developmental Biology by Scott Gilbert | 72 |
| Books | Tropical Rain Forest Ecology by Jaboury Ghazoul and Douglas Sheil | 73 |
| Analysis | "Career strategies for young European scientists (XXXI)
Funding opportunities in the Czech Republic – where reforms promise to get things rolling" | 74 |
| Humour | Cartoon: Cynical Sid (6) | 88 |
