| Title | | 1 |
| Editorial | | 3 |
| Content | | 4 |
| Humour | Paul the Postdoc | 6 |
| News | "An odd case of plagiarism / Medical ghostwriting / Recently awarded /
European research Council (ERC) evaluation / Artificial nerve cells
" | 6 |
| Opinion | "Research letter from ... a German Beer Garden: The ‘Bitter Dozen’
" | 14 |
| Opinion | "Observations of The Owl (19): What’s Sex?
" | 16 |
| Analysis | "Structural Biology: Gerard Kleywegt, new head of EMBL’s Protein Data Bank in Cambridge, talks about
pitfalls in determining 3D structures of proteins – and what has to be done to minimise them
" | 18 |
| Analysis | "Evolution of sexual reproduction: Sexual reproduction requires much higher efforts compared to asexual propagation.
So, to what advantage has it evolved anyway?
" | 24 |
| Journal Club | Aarhus/Denmark: RNAs in transcription control | 30 |
| Journal Club | Zurich/Switzerland: Interleukin signalling in chronic viral infections | 32 |
| Analysis | Career strategies for young European scientists (XVIII): Doing a PhD (or more) in Portugal | 36 |
| Journal Club | Athens/Greece: Protein degradation in Parkinson’s disease | 34 |
| Publication Statistics | Cell biology in Europe | 42 |
| Publication Statistics | Don’t be misled by citation figures! (18): Journal Tuning | 45 |
| Biobiz | "News: Genmab’s lead cancer drug disappoints / A small company is going to overthrow the world
of genomic sequencing / France’s investment funds carry cash to Germany" | 46 |
| Biobiz | Interview with Jean de Barry, co-founder of Innovative Health Diagnostics (IHD), Strasbourg, France | 48 |
| Biobiz | Patent law: The Max Planck Society has joined forces with a biotech company and is suing three prominent US institutions. Billion dollar patents are at stake. | 51 |
| Biobiz | Faked evidence | 55 |
| Products | New products | 56 |
| Methods | Tips and tricks of the trade: Coloured agar plates | 57 |
| Methods | Bench philosophy (20): Free lab software | 58 |
| Books | "The Machinery of Life, by David Goodsell
" | 60 |
| Products | Product survey: Cell Sorting | 61 |
| Humour | Cartoon: Superdoc (14) | 78 |
