Dr Megan Allyse is a Volunteer at the Progress Educational Trust (PET), and a Volunteer Writer at its free weekly email news digest, commentary service and website BioNews. She is also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Integration of Research on Genetics and Ethics at Stanford University's School of Medicine. Previously, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California at Berkeley's School of Law, and she has carried out field research in China, Hong Kong, Japan, the UK and the USA. She originally studied International Relations and Communication at Stanford University, and went on to obtain her Wellcome Trust supported PhD from the University of Nottingham's Institute for Science and Society. She has contributed a chapter to Communicating Biological Sciences: Ethical and Metaphorical Dimensions (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA), and she is coauthor of a chapter in Advances In Tissue Engineering (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA).