This Collection seeks to highlight new innovative research and clinical advancements in hormone-based therapies for metabolic diseases, particularly emphasizing the critical role of incretins in treatment strategies.

This collection invites insights on managing post-abandonment landscapes—afforest, rewild, restore—balancing biodiversity, climate resilience, and equity.

This Collection aims to gather innovative research that elucidates the multifaceted roles of fungal toxins at the host–fungal interface and, in parallel, also studies dedicated to understand the role of mycoviruses in modulating the fungal behavior and the toxin production. We especially encourage submissions that explore the ecological and agricultural implications of these interactions, particularly in relation to crop health and food safety.

In the current era of Industry 5.0, the transformation of engineering education is a prerequisite for achieving global sustainability. This collection seeks to bridge the gap between digital innovation and industrial accountability. Unlike traditional educational collections, this S.I. focuses on the quantifiable assessment of how transformative technologies—such as Digital Twins, Knowledge Data Management (KDM), and Social Knowledge Networks—impact student-led projects.

This Collection aims to explore the intersection of urban transformation, ethical design, and innovation in the context of territorial care. We invite researchers to contribute studies that address the complexities of urban transitions, emphasizing governance, spatial justice, and adaptation. By fostering dialogue and sharing insights, this Collection seeks to advance knowledge that can shape equitable and sustainable urban futures.

This Collection aims to showcase research on the clinical applications of digital medicine in infectious disease management.

This cross-journal Collection highlights the application of AI techniques to advance X-ray and neutron scattering and spectroscopy techniques in material science.

This cross-journal Collection focuses on approaches that use nonlinear dynamical systems to uncover organizing principles in living systems, together with experiments that are explicitly interpreted through such frameworks.

This special Collection in the World Journal of Emergency Surgery focuses on the latest advances in laparoscopic and robotic emergency surgery. It aims to gather original research and reviews that explore innovative techniques, outcomes, and training methodologies that enhance trauma and acute care surgical practices. This Collection seeks to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing among experts in the field, ultimately improving patient care and aligning with global health goals.

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology invites articles on new approaches to cultivating microorganisms, focusing on novel culture media and techniques that bring previously difficult to culture microbes into the laboratory. Topics of interest include customized genome-informed media, microfluidic and high-throughput isolation systems, co-culture and in situ devices, and advanced bioreactor methods.

The scope of Advances in Digital Discovery encompasses computational contributions that advance the acceleration of discovery processes, broadly defined but firmly anchored in chemistry. Submissions may address high-throughput and low-throughput paradigms alike, including the development of intelligent screening strategies, autonomous and robotics, chemical and materials databases, and sophisticated data analytics pipelines.

This special issue focuses on the chemical design, synthesis, functionalization, and characterization of MOFs and COFs, as well as their emerging applications.

In the race toward carbon neutrality, electrochemical catalysis is unlocking the future of clean energy. This collection highlights pioneering research on catalytic processes driving water electrolysis, CO₂ conversion and capture, and advanced battery systems. Explore how cutting-edge science is shaping sustainable energy storage, power generation, and value-added chemical production.

BMC Geriatrics is inviting submission that explore innovative interventions, culturally competent practices, and community-based approaches aimed at addressing inequities in healthcare for older adults.

This Special Collection aims to assemble cutting-edge research developing, integrating, and applying innovative analytical frameworks to detect, characterize, and interpret unknown hazardous substances in environmental systems.

This Collection brings together peer-reviewed research that advances human spaceflight safety by using risk management frameworks and evolving knowledge graphs to integrate multidisciplinary evidence, quantify system-level risks, and support risk-informed decision making for future lunar, Martian, and long-duration missions.

This Collection addresses PFAS as emerging contaminants by examining their production and use, environmental release, fate and transport, exposure pathways, and associated risks.

Given the escalating environmental presence and risks of antimicrobial drugs, there is an urgent need to improve our understanding of their sources, fate, transport, and associated ecological and human health impacts.

This Collection focuses on identifying, constraining, and reducing key uncertainties in the environmental behavior of plastics, including microplastics and nanoplastics.

This Collection highlights extracellular vesicles (EVs) as key mediators of intercellular communication that have become an engineerable platform thanks to recent conceptual and technological advances. This Collection welcomes studies that design, modify, control, or repurpose EVs to probe and regulate biological systems across life‑science disciplines, positioning EV engineering as a framework to understand and manipulate biological communication.