Exactly as I suspected.
Can you summarize this article in three sentences.
Completely misleading article title. Anybody who has studied college level experimental embryology knows that there are certain genes which control development of plant or animal tissue. “Youth gene”....buncha’ idiots....how many extra bucks did they generate from the clicks...paging Ponce de Leon...
Some scientists have found a special gene called Chinmo that makes insects stay young and grow bigger. This gene is also in humans and animals, and it might be important for fighting some diseases. The scientists studied two kinds of insects: fruit flies and cockroaches.They found out that Chinmo works together with two other genes, Br-C and E93, to control how insects change their bodies as they grow up. Chinmo makes the cells stay the same and not change into different kinds of cells. Br-C makes the cells form a hard shell around the insect’s body. E93 makes the cells change into the final shape of the insect.
The scientists learned that Chinmo has to stop working for the insect to grow up and become an adult. They think that Chinmo and the other genes are very old and have been around since insects first appeared on Earth.