Regional anesthesia is advancing through integration of physiology, ultrasound innovation, and perioperative cardiac assessment to improve safety and outcomes. This Collection showcases emerging techniques, education, and quality improvements that shape the future of patient-centered regional anesthesia.

This collection highlights selected topics presented & discussed at the Global Congress on Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering Innovations (BEBI 2026)—a leading international forum committed to advancing research, technology, & innovation in the field of biomedical engineering. BEBI 2026 brings together a global community of researchers, scientists, healthcare professionals, industry leaders, & innovators to explore transformative breakthroughs that are shaping the future of healthcare.

We now invite submissions or research articles that elucidate the mechanisms, functional consequences, and therapeutic tractability of cancer‑metabolism pathways.

This Collection will focus on the development and application of advanced fluorescent probes, chemical sensors, and analytical methodologies to study subcellular dynamics, with particular emphasis on mitochondrial function, membrane remodeling, lipid droplets, and organelle communication. We welcome contributions that integrate synthetic chemistry, bioanalytical methods, imaging technologies, and translational applications to better understand chemical processes in living systems.

The collection covers research involving analyses of three-dimensional models of cancer cell culture and co-cultures of cancer and normal cells. This special issue also includes comparative studies of various three-dimensional cancer cell culture models and their value in the context of classical flat cultures.

This Collection seeks to highlight innovative research on Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols, focusing on their impact on patient outcomes and satisfaction. We invite submissions that explore the implementation, challenges, and advancements in ERAS, as well as the multimodal approaches that facilitate improved recovery in surgical patients. Through this research, we aim to enhance the understanding and application of ERAS principles in surgical practice.

This Collection explores how learning environments shape mathematical cognition across development, particularly through their interactions with cognitive, affective, and neural factors.

This collection explores federated learning and behavioral AI for privacy-preserving, decentralized, and ethical modeling of human behavior. It invites research on algorithms, systems, and applications that integrate FL with behavioral analytics to enhance personalization, trust, and fairness in human-centric intelligent systems across domains like healthcare, mobility, and social computing.

This Collection aims to advance sustainability science by explicitly integrating nonlinear and asymmetric economic dynamics into the study of sustainable energy transitions and climate action.

This Collection focuses on advances in electrochemical energy conversion and storage, including innovative materials, interfacial science, reaction mechanisms and system integration for sustainable energy and functional electrochemical processes. We welcome original research, reviews and perspectives that address batteries, electrocatalysis, fuel cells, electrolysis, mechanistic insights and sustainability assessments within this broad yet impactful scope.

This Collection aims to explore cutting-edge research, frameworks, and applications at the intersection of blockchain technology and smart energy management. Blockchain’s decentralized, tamper-proof, and trustless architecture provides novel opportunities for transparent energy trading, secure grid operations, enhanced data integrity, and peer-to-peer renewable energy markets.

By comparing the materials and techniques of the Visconti decks, this research enhances our understanding of tarocchi card production and situates them within the broader tradition of Northern Italian illumination.

The accelerating shift toward distributed work arrangements, international collaboration, and digital-first organizations has positioned global virtual teams (GVTs) as a critical management system requiring sophisticated engineering approaches. As organizations navigate post-pandemic realities, geopolitical complexity, and the integration of AI-powered collaboration platforms, the effective design, coordination, and optimization of GVTs has become essential to organizational performance and comp

This collection highlights emerging advances in electrochemical sensing, showcasing smart platforms that unite high analytical performance with real‑world usability. We welcome innovative research and reviews that push the boundaries of materials, device design, data processing, and digital integration to accelerate impactful applications in environmental and biomedical domains.

This Collection offers a platform for original, integrative, and multidisciplinary research on aeolian dune dynamics, both on Earth and other planetary bodies.

This Collection aims to gather cutting-edge findings focusing on novel therapeutic approaches for brain cancers, including targeted drug delivery, nanomedicine platforms, immunomodulatory strategies, phototherapies, ferroptosis-induced tumor control, gene/aptamer-based targeting, biomaterials for BBB penetration, and emerging combination treatments. Studies involving molecular mechanisms, tumor microenvironment modulation, preclinical validation, and clinical trial perspectives are encouraged.

This Collection focuses on the latest advances in understanding CSC-driven resistance mechanisms across multiple cancer types. Topics include, but are not limited to, CSC signaling networks, metabolic adaptation, immune escape, epitranscriptomic regulation, and novel therapeutic strategies targeting CSCs.

This collection focuses on cancer as a dynamic, evolving ecosystem shaped by spatial, metabolic, and ecological interactions between malignant cells and their surrounding microenvironment.

This Collection will focus on studies examining the cellular and mechanistic changes within tumors and their surrounding environment caused by either chemotherapy or ICIs, highlighting studies where their combination provides significant benefits over individual treatments alone.

This collection aims to focus on novel agents and their combinations for multiple myeloma (MM). Focus will be placed on the efficacy of novel therapeutics and promising combination approaches to further improve outcomes in the treatment. We welcome the submission of original research articles, reviews, case reports and case series.