This Special Collection explores digital, AI, and blended healthcare approaches for eating disorders, spanning detection, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. It highlights clinically meaningful, patient-centred innovations, system efficiencies, and ethical implementation to improve outcomes across care pathways.

This Collection seeks to gather research addressing the multifaceted challenges and innovations in paediatric gastroenterology. It focuses on gastrointestinal disorders prevalent in children, exploring diagnostic advancements, management strategies, and nutritional interventions, all aimed at improving health outcomes and quality of life for young patients.

BMC Palliative Care is calling for submissions to our new Collection, Digital health tools in palliative care. This Collection aims to explore the intersection of digital health and new technologies in palliative care, focusing on their applications, challenges, and potential benefits for end-of-life care. We welcome submissions that investigate how these innovations can enhance patient experiences and symptom management, improve communication, and promote better health outcomes.

This Collection seeks to gather research on biomarkers of acute heart failure, focusing on their diagnostic potential and clinical applications. We welcome submissions that investigate novel biomarkers, diagnostic tests, and their implications for personalized treatment strategies in acute heart failure, with the goal of advancing the field and improving patient care.

This Collection invites studies on mechanisms, biomarkers, and interventions to monitor, prevent, or rejuvenate immune ageing and improve healthspan in older adults.

This collection invites original research that advances our understanding of carbohydrate PGMs, their roles in fundamental biological processes, and their applications in health, disease, and therapeutic development.

Thousands of potentially beneficial microorganisms have been reported for plant growth promotion and disease suppression, yet the genomic basis of many agriculturally important traits remains unexplored. This Special Issue will focus on genome-informed microbial solutions for plant health, particularly studies that bridge microbial genomic discoveries with experimental validation and possible field-level agricultural applications.

Advanced Metamaterials invites articles on highly novel metamaterials and metasurfaces whose unique properties enable unprecedented control of light and sound, with applications spanning super-resolution imaging, optical computing, polarization and wavefront engineering, holography, and acoustic sensing and manipulation.

Polymer pyrolysis involves complex chemical reactions and transport phenomena across multiple spatial and temporal scales, including bond dissociation, radical reactions, molecular rearrangement, volatile evolution, carbonisation, and product formation. A detailed understanding of these processes is essential for improving polymer thermal stability, controlling flammability, enabling chemical recycling, and tailoring the properties of pyrolysis-derived products. However, conventional experimenta

This Collection highlights innovative strategies for engineering yeast cell factories to produce fuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, proteins, and other value-added products. It emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches spanning metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, systems biology, machine learning, and industrial biotechnology.

The rapid evolution of open software ecosystems, open hardware architectures, and large language models (LLMs) has fundamentally reshaped modern supply chains. Beyond traditional software packages and hardware modules, today's supply chains increasingly incorporate AI artifacts such as foundation models, intelligent agents, AI tool services, Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based ecosystems, AI infrastructure, and their execution environments. These heterogeneous artifacts are interconnected through

Organizational resilience ensures continuity by integrating systems, people, and processes to minimize disruption while meeting rising expectations for reliability and security. With AI-driven intrusions accelerating, proactive defense and vulnerability remediation are critical to counter increasingly automated and sophisticated attacks.

With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Communications Medicine, Nature Communications, npj Precision Oncology, Communications Health, and Scientific Reports invite manuscripts that highlight advances across the pediatric cancer spectrum, from disease mechanism to clinical application and long-term outcomes.

This Special Collection explores how immersive technologies (AR/VR/MR) are transforming healthcare simulation. It invites contributions on realistic training environments that support experiential learning in safe settings, covering scenario development, training impact, user experience, assessment methods, ethical issues, and comparisons with traditional simulation approaches.

In this Collection, we highlight the new biosensing technologies to be presented at the 7th International Congress on Biosensors, a pivotal event that will gather experts to explore innovations in biosensors where nanotechnology, biotechnology, and engineering sciences intersect, including both fundamental and applied sciences.

BMC Immunology is calling for original research submissions for a special Collection dedicated to advancing the field of allergy immunotherapy. This Collection will explore the efficacy, mechanisms, and transformative potential of allergen immunotherapy in allergy treatment.

This collection aims to explore the transformative role of artificial intelligence, digital innovation, and emerging technologies in advancing sustainability across business, society, entrepreneurship, marketing, tourism, supply chains, healthcare, and public services, particularly within emerging economies.

The Topical Collection aims to provide a forum on advanced modelling strategies for materials characterised by complex microstructures and mechanical responses, in particular those that cannot be fully captured within the classical continuum framework. Particular attention will be devoted to materials exhibiting size effects, internal length scales and non-local interactions arising from heterogeneous or architectured microstructures.

The collection highlights computational chemistry approaches that support environmental and ecological risk assessment through predictive modeling of chemical behavior, fate, and effects. It covers physics based, data driven, and hybrid methods applied across a broad range of environmentally relevant chemical systems and processes.

This Collection focuses on the chemical mechanisms and behaviors of proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids, emphasizing chemical interactions, reaction mechanisms, structure–function relationships, reaction kinetics, and molecular-level processes underlying biomolecular structure, dynamics, and function. It welcomes both experimental (in vitro, in vivo, in situ) and computational (in silico) studies that elucidate how chemical principles govern biomolecular behavior.