| News | Picture of the issue / Growing unrest against Impact Factors / The preliminary verdict against Milena Penkowa is in / Recently Awarded / New Zebrafish Resource Center opened in Germany / Dutch and German neurobiologists find a function for a glial glutama | 1 |
| Editorial | | 4 |
| Humour | Paul the Postdoc | 6 |
| Contents | | 6 |
| Opinion | Research letter from... Scandinavia: Grin And Bear It! | 12 |
| Opinion | Observations of The Owl (38): Vanity (Un)Fair | 14 |
| Opinion | Over the Line? (5): The Crying Game | 16 |
| Analysis | Scientific Misconduct: The image of a 2D gel in a Proteomics paper; scientist has déjà vu moment | 18 |
| Analysis | Interview: Eric Karsenti on tracking down ocean life and the importance of science communication | 24 |
| Journal Club | Helsinki/Finland Lichens reveal their toxic secret | 28 |
| Journal Club | Utrecht/The Netherlands A hybrid mouse helps cancer patients | 30 |
| Journal Club | Karlsruhe/Germany Fooling plants with synthetic substitutes | 32 |
| Publication Statistics | Fungal Research in Europe | 34 |
| Publication Statistics | What's behind paper retractions? (11): Stop Shooting the Messenger | 37 |
| Biobiz | Norway's Algeta announces good news about investigational cancer drug / UK's Cellcentric and Netherland's Zobio join forces in epigenetics / Germany's Agennix faces fatal flop | 38 |
| Biobiz | Is Big Pharma abandoning research? Why is an industry whose life-blood depends on drug discovery cutting its own R&D? And how does the rise in a “modern” management culture interact with merger mania? | 40 |
| Biobiz | Interview: Sequencing pioneer Hagan Bayley about the origins of his research and the absolute necessity for scientists to pursue their research, unhampered by bureaucratic hassle | 45 |
| Products | New products | 47 |
| Methods | Bench philosophy (39): Biocuration | 48 |
| Methods | Tips and tricks of the trade: White PAGE gels | 50 |
| Products | Product survey:Automated liquid handling | 51 |
| Books | Stradivari's Heirs by Corinna Engelhardt | 56 |
| Books | Exploring Immunology by Gordon MacPherson and Jon Austyn | 57 |
| Analysis | Career strategies for young European scientists (XXXVII): The European Research Council has been rewarding ”excellent ideas“ since 2007 | 58 |
| Humour | One fine day in the lab | 62 |
| Humour | Cartoon: Cynical Sid (12) | 66 |
