Dr Jess Buxton is an Adviser to the Progress Educational Trust (PET), and a Contributing Editor at its free weekly email news digest, commentary service and website BioNews. She was previously Genetics Editor at PET and BioNews, and together with Dr Kirsty Horsey she devised the BioNews internship scheme, which provides practical science writing training and experience for PhD students. Her work for PET has also included writing publications such as An Introduction to Stem Cells, a booklet explaining the science, ethics and regulation of stem cells for a lay readership. She is currently a Research Associate within the Section of Genomic Medicine at Imperial College London, where she is a tutor for the MSc in Human Molecular Genetics; and she is Press Officer at the British Society for Human Genetics, working with Ailsa Taylor to coordinate media coverage of the society's annual conference. She is coauthor (with Jon Turney) of The Rough Guide to Genes and Cloning (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA), and she has contributed a chapter to Human Fertilisation and Embryology: Reproducing Regulation (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA).