From warfare to entertainment and VR, brain-computer interface development has extended beyond prosthetics for patients with disabilities. Missing is full ethical consideration of the consequences.
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Rather than a vaccine to beef up your immune system, a psychoactive substance could boost your cooperative, pro-social behavior – curtailing the selfish actions that spur on coronavirus’s spread.
Seemingly innocuous security chips could enable companies to monitor employees in more sinister ways.
Armed forces around the world are exploring technological and biological enhancements to their soldiers. But this raises a number of serious ethical concerns, before, during and after conflict.
A tool in place of your arm or a stereo for your leg? How our attitudes towards human enhancement have changed.
Regulations, funding and public opinion around genetically enhancing future generations vary from country to country. Here’s why China may be poised to be the pioneer.
The next generation of neuroprosthetics could communicate directly with the brain to tackle diseases such as epilepsy and blindness.
Transhumanism sees mind uploading as the ultimate destiny of humanity, but it’s actually a dangerous distraction.
Smart drugs are known to boost cognition in healthy people – but are they a form of cheating?
Doctors are working to reconnect the brain to paralysed limbs.
Imagine if your smartphone was built into your arm. Flexible organic electronics could one day make artificial skin displays a reality.
How soft robotics could help paralysed people walk again without the need for clunky equipment.
Will a bit of brain stimulation to lift our spirits ahead of a night out be commonplace in the future?
A new community is experimenting on their own bodies with electronic implants, says the man who pioneered the idea nearly 20 years ago.
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Research Fellow in Biomedical Engineering, Keele University
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Professor of Physics, University of Sheffield
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University of Salford
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Senior lecturer, University of Twente
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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PhD Candidate, UCL
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Coventry University
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Professor de Filosofia da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) e Professor de Filosofia do Direito, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
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Assistant Professor in Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Reader in Neuroprosthesis, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Neural Interfaces, Newcastle University
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Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Professor of Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law, Western Michigan University