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 Wellcome Trust supported PhD student at the University of Nottingham's Institute for Science and Society, where her work focuses on comparative political sociology and the role of ethics in political decisions about new science and technologies. She is currently exploring egg donation and somatic cell nuclear transfer research in China, California and the UK. 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).