City College-bred fruit flies, parasites, in space odyssey

(City College of New York) Hurtling around Earth, at 17,500 mph some 248 miles in space, is a small swarm of City College of New York-bred fruit flies and their parasitic wasps. The insects, from biologist Shubha Govind's lab, are part of an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) whose outcome could be beneficial to astronauts on exploration missions.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - Category: Biology Source Type: news