Rajesh Rathod is a Volunteer at the Progress Educational Trust (PET), where he maintains standards and consistency on PET's free weekly email news digest, commentary service and website BioNews. He performs proofreading, formatting and quality assurance work on both new BioNews articles and the publication's extensive archive, and he integrates items from the BioNews glossary into articles. He also helps the BioNews editorial team identify stories to commission for cover in the BioNews newsletter. Outside of his work with PET, he writes, edits and formats life sciences and general science materials. Previously, he studied Physiology and Medical Laboratory Sciences at Portsmouth Polytechnic (now the University of Portsmouth).