No, this is wrong. The point is to figure out what chemicals react with living creatures in what way. We're not creating super-mice, we're not making the rats o

No, this is wrong. The point is to figure out what chemicals react with living creatures in what way. We're not creating super-mice, we're not making the rats of NIMH, we're blindly fumbling about for one of the septillions of light switches we haven't flipped yet to see what it does. Figuring these things out is hard. Humans are good at doing things they've done before, or imitating actions they've seen or heard before, but learning something entirely new is very very difficult. We have more scientists alive and working on problems now than ever before in human history and still the mill of innovation turns slowly.