| Title | | 1 |
| Editorial | | 3 |
| Content | | 4 |
| News | Picture of the issue / Open access publishing / University reduction in Wales / Fraud accusations in Denmark /Animal research communication / Evolution and embryology | 6 |
| Humour | Paul the Postdoc | 6 |
| Opinion | Research letter from ... England: Excitable Ear Extractions | 14 |
| Opinion | Observations of The Owl (27): Innocent Victims | 15 |
| Analysis | "Drug Discovery - Is Mother Nature still the number one source for promising new drugs?
" | 16 |
| Analysis | Open Innovation - If you want to earn some extra cash, solve some problems for the pharma industry | 20 |
| Analysis | "Interview - Elena Cattaneo gives an insight to Italian research?
" | 26 |
| Humour | One fine day in the lab (23) | 29 |
| Journal Club | Thessaloniki/Greece Role of a deubiquitinase in T-cell development and leukemogenesis | 30 |
| Journal Club | Helsinki/Finland miRNAs in plant root development | 32 |
| Journal Club | Oeiras/Portugal Telomeres and the DNA damage response paradox | 34 |
| Publication Statistics | Microbiology in Europe | 36 |
| Publication Statistics | Don’t be misled by citation figures! (27): High Impact with Low Numbers | 39 |
| Biobiz | "Austria's Intercell endures plaster disaster / Thermo Fisher continues to expand chromatography business / Danish Symphogen raises €100 million for therapeutic antibody mixtures
" | 40 |
| Biobiz | Analysis - Roche drops RNAi while everybody is wondering whether they know something we don't | 42 |
| Biobiz | Company Portrait - With fighting antibiotic-resistant superbugs in Cambridge, UK, a former stationer has started a second career. In her first, she designed and sold office supplies | 44 |
| Biobiz | Misconduct and Manners - How a paper retraction delayed an IPO and shrunk investment but should build public trust | 48 |
| Methods | Tips and tricks of the trade: Streamlined emulsion PCR protocol | 50 |
| Methods | Bench philosophy (28): Statistical Pitfalls | 55 |
| Products | Product survey: Thermal Cyclers | 57 |
| Products | New products | 65 |
| Books | Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis, by I. Schön, K. Martens & P. Van Dijk | 66 |
| Books | Living in a Microbial World, by Bruce V. Hofkin | 67 |
| Analysis | Career strategies for young European scientists (XXVI) - Funding opportunities in Finland – where the research climate gets cosier and cosier | 68 |
| Humour | Cartoon: Cynical Sid (1) | 86 |
