Or indeed, could it be Neal Asher's story "The Engineer" about seriously deep bioengineering in the 1998 anthology The Engineer (reissued in 2006 as The Engineer ReConditioned)?
In it Asher's Polity-universe protagonists (a "partial cat-adapt" and her human male sidekick) discover the sporulated form of an extinct race of ancient bioengineers and attempt to revive it. This slow process leads to it biologically assimilating them and amplifying their abilities. Immortality? Well, they manage to survive the blast from a nearby nuke strike.
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