Question: What will you change in the life of fish? And humans?

Lauren Laing answered on 11 Mar 2016:

I hope to understand more about how chemicals effect the way genes work, in both fish and humans. Zebrafish share as many as 85% of their genes with humans, this means I can also learn about humans while studying the Zebrafish. Hopefully this information will help to prevent humans and wildlife from being exposed to chemicals will may make them ill.

I hope that the work my colleagues and I do to try and understand chemicals toxicity will help decision makers in parliament to make new policies which will regulate chemicals. It is important that chemicals which can cause harm are regulated, but also that chemicals which are safe alternatives are made available for farmers and industries such as the pharmaceutical industry. This is because we cannot live without some chemicals, like important medicines, and fertilizers used to make sure we can produce enough food to eat!