Project LAZARUS

 General: 

Project LAZARUS is the name of a series of court projects, some of which are planned to enter the public domain with the basic intention of preserving, extending, and restarting life.

 Operation: 

The first successful LAZARUS project was a personal project of M, one which the court upheld once M became Athena. The project involved a modified virus strain, designed to genetically modify any bodily cell it encounters to produce cellular telomerase, similarly to how an unmodified virus cell will modify a cell to produce copies of the virus. This prevented the biological effects of aging and allowed any modified individual to remain in their physical prime until another cause resulted in the individual's death.