This collection aims to identify mechanistic drivers and therapeutics targeting skeletal muscle dysfunction across a variety of pathologies.

This Collection addresses emerging fibrous materials and textile‑based structures designed for advanced functional and high‑performance applications. It covers innovations in fibre development, processing technologies and application‑driven material engineering across biomedical, structural, protective and sustainable domains.

This Topic Collection focuses on understanding tropical dry forest regeneration and succession in Latin America by linking plant functional traits to community assembly, species filtering, and ecosystem functioning across broad environmental gradients. By emphasizing trait-based, functional approaches, it aims to advance our understanding of forest recovery and to inform effective restoration, reforestation, and sustainable management of these highly threatened and understudied ecosystems.

This Collection invites researchers to submit their work on virtual health assistants, exploring their applications in healthcare through AI, machine learning, and digital health technologies. We welcome submissions that address the design, implementation, and evaluation of virtual health assistants, including their role in telehealth, patient support systems, and remote patient monitoring, aiming to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.

This collection welcomes original research that increases our understanding of the distinct challenges and factors influencing the health and performance of females in sport.

BMC Neuroscience invites submissions to our Collection on brain stimulation techniques and their relationship with spiking neural networks. We welcome research that explore the mechanisms, applications, and implications of neuromodulation in both health and disease. By bridging experimental neuroscience and computational modeling, this Collection aims to advance our understanding of brain function and facilitate the development of novel therapeutic interventions.

This collection welcomes studies that advance the fundamental understanding, new theoretical proposals, materials discovery, device concepts and realization, and technological implications of sliding regimes in layered quantum materials.

This Collection brings together interdisciplinary research on urban ecosystem services and nature-based solutions, examining their role in enhancing climate resilience and reducing disaster risk in cities. It aims to inform evidence-based urban planning and governance by showcasing innovative assessment methods, performance insights, and decision-support tools that support sustainable, climate-adaptive urban futures.

Materials and Environmental Science for a Better Life: This Collection focuses on Advanced Materials and Technologies that Address Challenges in Energy, the Environment, Water, and Sustainability.

Pollinators are important for a healthy planet, supporting food security and biodiversity. However, human activities have led to a global decline in pollinators like bees due to diseases, parasites, pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change. Reports from the United Nations and IPBES indicate that nearly 35% of invertebrate pollinators are at risk of extinction. This Collection highlights veterinary entomology and research on pollinator health to advance threat identification and management.

This Collection welcomes original research that advances our understanding of bladder dysfunction.

This collection focuses on the development of nanocarriers as drug delivery platforms in dermatological applications. The issue discusses the synthesis, characterisation, and in vitro-in vivo efficacy evaluation of nanodrugs for topical dermatological applications such as antibacterial, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, and cosmeceutical therapy.

This Special Issue contributes to global sustainability by addressing critical challenges in air pollution, climate change, and public health.

With this Collection, the editors at Communications Health invite manuscripts that identify the heterogeneity in digital health equity, its origin, its association with determinants of health, in addition to strategies to measure and resolve inequity at different levels.

This collection includes work on autophagy initiation, cargo recognition, autophagosome formation and dynamics, lysosomal function, organelle‑specific autophagy pathways, and the integration of autophagy with broader cellular networks.

This Collection highlights electrolyte solvation structure engineering that advances molecular design, interfacial chemistry, and electrolyte formulations for high-voltage cycling, fast charging, high power and wide-temperature operation.

This Collection invites interdisciplinary scholarship that situates the Nobel Prize within broader historical and cultural frameworks. We welcome contributions that explore its evolution as an institution, its role in shaping intellectual and political agendas, and its symbolic power in global contexts.

This Collection invites submissions on the latest research in human accelerated sinkholes and risk monitoring, including multidisciplinary and integrative studies.

This collection brings together international experts to review modern strategies for managing skull base lesions, emphasizing the balance between oncological control and neurological preservation. It showcases up-to-date evidence, evolving surgical techniques, and practical insights from leading skull base surgeons.

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