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.

This Collection welcomes experimental, computational, and theoretical studies investigating dynamics across biological, neural, cognitive, behavioral, and clinical scales, from cellular processes and neural circuits to whole-brain activity, behavior, and symptom expression. We particularly encourage contributions that develop multiscale models, analytical frameworks, or data-driven approaches to understand how interactions across scales give rise to emergent phenomena and the evolution of adapti

This Collection examines the sources, transport, fate, and impacts of classical (e.g., pesticides) and emerging organic contaminants (e.g., PFAS) across Earth’s biotic and abiotic systems. It invites research on contaminant behavior in soil, sediment, water, air, and biota, supporting improved environmental monitoring and risk assessment within the geosciences.

This Collection invites research on the design, evaluation, governance, and real-world deployment of health digital twins for clinical impact.

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This collection examines how integrating pharmacy services into public health systems can strengthen prevention, improve equitable access to care, and address population health challenges through data-informed, digitally enabled, and collaborative approaches.

This collection features research, case studies and policy analyses on innovative, inclusive strategies to strengthen last-mile agricultural extension and climate information services in Africa and South Asia, enhancing smallholder farmers’ resilience, productivity and sustainable agricultural development.

This Collection focuses on precision breeding in wheat by integrating genomics, multi-omics, gene editing, speed breeding, and phenomics to dissect key agronomic, stress‑resistant, and quality traits, while mining valuable genes from wheat wild relatives. t aims to address climate challenges and genetic erosion, highlighting innovative molecular strategies and AI‑driven approaches for developing resilient, high‑yielding, and high‑quality wheat varieties to ensure global food security.

This Collection explores human-centered design approaches to immersive learning technologies—including XR (VR, AR, MR), simulations, immersive media, intelligent agents, and gamified environments—in education. It welcomes empirical, experimental, field, review, and conceptual studies that examine learner-centered design and evaluate cognitive, affective, behavioral, and attitudinal learning outcomes.

BMC Medical Education is calling for submissions to our Collection, Programmatic assessment. We welcome research contributions that explore effective and systematic assessment strategies to enhance medical and healthcare education.

This Collection places teacher learning and professional agency at the center of technology‑integrated education, including AI literacy, ethics, and critical engagement. It invites global perspectives—particularly from underrepresented regions—to examine how teachers develop competencies and exercise agency in evolving digital environments.

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This Collection focuses on recent advances in sustainable asphalt pavement technologies, including recycling strategies, circular economy applications, bio-based materials, and environmental assessment methodologies.

The Collection explores the sources, environmental fate, transformation, detection, and mitigation of emerging contaminants, with a particular focus on linking scientific understanding to treatment technologies and policy frameworks across global environmental systems.