This is what you learn from cartoons. People who do real lab work know that, until the advent of CRISPR, it was a crapshoot to incorporate genetic material in eukaryotic cells. And even now that we can do so with some precision, there is still no guarantee that the gene you put in will get turned on, or that even if it gets expressed it will "change the whole animal". Troons love to say that "Biology is complicated" and it's true, but the most impressive thing about biological systems is that they are robust; they typically have so many fallback mechanisms that can tolerate a surprising amount of perturbations without changing their function.
Try hack into Windows 10 to remove Cortana. To hack a cell is a thousand times harder.
Nah he never stopped having "financial woes". First it was the pharmacy, then it was renovation going over budget, etc, etc.
And $200 concert tickets? Look I'm one of the craziest music nut on KF and I've never paid one-third as much for any concert.