Welcome

18 years after the Progress Educational Trust (PET) was founded, its website and that of its publication BioNews have been redeveloped and relaunched with generous support from the UK Government's Department of Health and the Wellcome Trust. The redeveloped BioNews website also has an RSS feed.

We'll be developing and adding features to both the PET and BioNews websites throughout 2010, and we can do an even better job of this with your input. Please contact us and let us know what you think of the new websites, if you encounter any problems or difficulties with them, and if you have any suggestions for how they might be improved.

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Latest news

• The PET event Marked for Life: Are Genetic Markers Helpful in Understanding Psychological Disorders?, organised in partnership with the Royal Society of Medicine, took place on 3 March 2010 and has been reported in BioNews.

  

• PET Director Sarah Norcross will be giving a presentation on Public Perceptions and the Media at the British Society for Gene Therapy event Journeys in the Genetic Jungle on Monday 29 March 2010.

• Pioneering work on epigenetics by PET's Founding Chair of Trustees, Professor Marcus Pembrey, is discussed in the TIME magazine article 'Why your DNA isn't your destiny'.

• PET Adviser Alastair Kent will be chairing the Genetic Interest Group annual conference Giving Patients a Voice on Tuesday 8 June 2010.

• The UK Government's Science and the Media Expert Group, chaired by PET Adviser Fiona Fox, has published its report Science and the Media: Securing the Future. Nature Network has launched a forum to discuss the report.

• PET Adviser Laura Riley is coauthor of the paper 'Women's opinions on the home management of early medical abortion in the UK', published in the January 2010 edition of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Healthcare.