FFATC - Fruit Fly Air Traffic Control guiding them on to the scale for weighing. A little known group sacrificing their potential for landing better jobs in the sake of science . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Since fruit flies were initially used to study and understand genetics and heredity due to their short life spans and rapid genetic changes, they became the model early on. How they translate to human metabolic and dietary understanding is a stretch, but no one cries over the poor lowly fruit fly being an experimental object. I'm now having a brief personal moment of silence in memory of the many who have sacrificed for humans. A noble role.