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Quigley says

How about radical body changes through virus-induced gene resequencing? Want to be a different gender? Here's a shot, and then sleep for a few weeks. Wake up as a beautiful woman. Or man. Or mermaid. Or satyr. Or centaur.

Or this:

Want a pet unicorn?

Already done:

Want an elephant as small as a cat?

Want the expensive vet bills when the undisclosed problems show up in these novel animals?

Want to surf the net with your eyes closed? Biotech will get there, sooner than you think.

Want the NSA (or worse your crazy ass ex-girlfriend) full access to your mind?

How about a mental switch to turn on endorphins? Adrenaline? Simulate orgasm? It's all possible, and sooner than you expect.

Now illegal drugs have already done this for years. There are also much older already all natural, drug free - make that just plain free - ways to get an actual orgasm.

How much would people pay for any of this? Market forces would prevail, but the researchers would definitely get paid.

Not well:
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Life-Physical-and-Social-Science/Biochemists-and-biophysicists.htm

($80k MEDIAN pay with a Ph.D. considered as entry level. Mind you that distribution is probably skewed towards the lower end by post-docs)

All fun aside much of what you see as potential is decades away while the burn rate (and risk) to get there is enormous.