ROTTMNT,,, what a plot!

D’ya notice the strange research he abandoned required the exact opposite process of what his current research is... 

From the research title: Mutation of (insert Animal Specie name here) into Sustainable Anthromorphic Functioning Creatures Capable of Combat and Instruction, into 

: Mutation of Homo sapiens into (insert Animal Specie name here) from Varying Individual Genetic Lineage by Injection of “Ooze” via Mosquito.