Modern science already offers ways to enhance your mood, sex drive, athletic performance, concentration levels and overall health. But is such medically driven self-improvement always a good idea?

Most Americans are put off by the idea of using science to ‘enhance’ human abilities — and these attitudes are strongly connected with people’s religiosity. That’s according to a new Pew Research ...

The coincidence was too remarkable to ignore. In the movie, the plot is driven by the government’s attempt to “cure” the mutants so they’ll be “normal,” the very sort of issue the conference, called ...

J. Craig Venter, a TIME 100 honoree, is a geneticist known for being one of the first to sequence the human genome. Discussions on human genome modifications to eliminate disease genes and/or for ...

Human enhancement technologies are opening up tremendous new possibilities. But they're also raising important questions about what it means to be human, and what is good or bad for our individual and ...

Pew Research Center’s new survey on human enhancement finds a broad wariness about the prospect of technologies aimed at making people smarter, stronger and healthier. Americans who are highly ...

The world is changing at a furious pace due to rapid technological advancements, especially those of artificial intelligence (AI). Enhancing human beings through new technology has become a topic of ...

More than half of U.S. adults (56%) said that widespread use of brain chips to enhance cognitive function would be a bad idea for society. Many Americans who are highly religious and identify with ...

These sciences suggest ways in which technology could allow people to make themselves “better than well” by using enhancements such as brain modifications to increase memory or reasoning capabilities, ...

Human enhancement technologies are opening up tremendous new possibilities. But they're also raising important questions about what it means to be human. These technologies are currently geared ...