Before you swat away the next fruit fly, consider instead
just how similar its biological complexities are to our own. In a study
published in PLOS ONE, researchers led by Deborah Kimbrell, Ph.D., at the
University of California, Davis (UC Davis) and their collaborators, studied how
microorganisms may alter fruit flies’ immunity in space and in hypergravity, or
increased gravity. The article is titled “Toll Mediated Infection Response Is
Altered by Gravity and Spaceflight in Drosophila.”