"By combining optogenetics and cybernetics, humans were able to use their thoughts to alter genes in mice"

There are several layers to why this is the greatest sentence ever written in English.

1. The implications of this technology are crazy amazing. It's like science fiction come to life. Truly Singularity-level technology right there.

2. Cybernetics. Altering genes. Controlled by thought. You may as well have just told me that I can now download a pizza from The Pirate Bay.