Position/Organization: freelance writer, www.amberldance.com

Amber Dance is a freelance science writer based in Pasadena, California. She works half-time for the Alzheimer Research Forum (www.alzforum.org), writing about research on Lou Gehrig's disease. She contributes a bimonthly column, 'In the Works,' to the Los Angeles Times Health section. In addition, she writes about stem cell biology for StemBook.org and also contributes to The Scientist and Nature. Dance earned a PhD in cell biology and microbiology at UC San Diego before attending the UC Santa Cruz science writing program and launching her journalism career.