Rajesh Rathod is a Volunteer at the Progress Educational Trust (PET), where he maintains and organises the archive of PET's free weekly email news digest, commentary service and website BioNews. In addition to proofreading, formatting and quality assurance work, he also helps the BioNews editorial team identify stories to cover in the BioNews newsletter. He also writes, edits and illustrates course chapters for Professional Educational Organisation International. Previously, he studied Physiology and Medical Laboratory Sciences at Portsmouth Polytechnic (now the University of Portsmouth).