A Perfect World — Robert Charles

Valerie had not only identified the aging gene, but had proved that by switching it off she practically halted the aging process in mice. She had found the proverbial 'fountain of youth'. The implications were tremendous, mind-boggling even. Imagine people living until they were two hundred or more years old. But Stan Lazarus, the CEO of BIOTEC had a different application for Val's work...so did the government.