NASA studies fruit flies to understand astronaut sleep cycles

NASA studies fruit flies to understand astronaut sleep cycles

Space Daily

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Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 01, 2021

Tiny fruit flies are helping NASA study how brain activity and sleep patterns change when organisms live in the microgravity of space. An experiment on the International Space Station will build on the United States' legacy of using fruit flies to understand how life endures in space. The experiment, known as Genes in Space-7, uses genetic matter derived from fruit fly brains to unde

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