By human standards, Life on Earth has been able to adapt to the most inhospitable of places; polar regions, warm deserts, deep oceans, pitch black caves, toxic lakes, and even nuclear waste sites. Organisms that thrive in extreme environments are often called extremophiles, and underlying the unique adaptations to such harsh conditions is their genetic backdrop.

This Collection is open to the latest genetic and genomic research focusing on how different organisms have evolved to not only tolerate but flourish in the most extreme environments.

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Metamaterials are a new class of material that present properties beyond those found in natural materials. By engineering repeating patterned structures, whose dimensions are smaller than the wavelength of light at which they are intended to be used, it is possible to explore novel light–matter interaction phenomena. These can be paramount in a variety of technologies including the generation of ‘flat optics’ (e.g. metalenses) and ‘cloaking’ materials.

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客座编辑：Maria Cristina De Rosa, Alfonso T. Garcia-Sosa, Rituraj Purohit

The process of drug discovery, safety testing, and clinical trials is an extremely long and costly one. Drug repurposing, or drug repositioning, is an approach which aims to circumvent some of the steps of that process by examining previously approved compounds for their efficacy in new indications. By taking a systematic and computational approach to assessing the suitability of known compounds, researchers are able to speed up successful drug discovery and bring treatment options to patients who need them.

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客座编辑：Mahnaz Arvaneh, Francesca Baglio, Kenji Kansaku

At the intersection between neuroscience and engineering is neuroengineering, a rapidly growing field in which engineering principles and techniques are combined with the latest findings on neural circuits, in order to understand and augment brain functions. Recent advances in neurotechnology are paving the way towards a “neural revolution,” as they are applied in life-changing therapies for nervous system disorders, cutting-edge rehabilitative and assistive devices, and novel biocompatible materials; it is clear these technologies have the potential to bring major benefits to society.

This Collection will bring together interdisciplinary research on brain-computer interfaces, rehabilitation robotics, virtual rehabilitation, neuroinformatics, computational neuroscience, neural signal processing, prosthetic devices, sensory prosthetics, wearable devices, advanced kinematic, and neuromodulation. Submissions that maximise accessibility, and ensure that safe, effective treatments can be approved and scaled efficiently, are particularly welcome.

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The diagnosis and treatment of cancer presents a physical and mental burden to the patient, often involving diagnostic biopsies and surgeries or chemotherapeutic approaches with severe side-effects. Advances which enable early detection of cancer and close monitoring of the disease course without invasive procedures, and which can underpin a tailored approach to treatment, can therefore make a big difference to the quality of life of patients. Liquid biopsies can be used to access tumour cells and tumour DNA circulating in the blood. Monitoring these species can provide a minimally invasive and repeatable means to detect cancer, or gain information about its response to treatment.

This Collection invites original research into assays for use with liquid biopsies, and work which characterises circulating tumour biomarkers.

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Ionising radiation includes sub-atomic particles and electromagnetic radiation whose energy is high enough to ionise atoms and molecules. The detection and analysis of such types of radiation - which includes high-energy UV, X-rays, gamma-rays, alpha-particles, beta-particles, and neutrons - is essential in a variety of applications spanning a huge range of fields from astronomy to medical and materials applications. In all of these applications, high-performance (e.g. high sensitivity, radiation hardness) devices are needed and, as a result, ionising radiation detectors have attracted great interest in the scientific community.

This Collection will bring together original research in the next generation of ionising radiation detector technologies.

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客座编辑：Belén Cabal, Stefania Galdiero, Shipra Grover

Antibiotics are a mainstay of the modern world, and are used to prevent and treat countless minor and major infections each year. As such, the increasing spread of bacteria that are resistant to our most effective antibiotics is a major threat to public health. Multiple generations of antibiotics have been designed around the same targets, and given the prevalence of lateral gene transfer, resistance to a whole class of drugs can emerge within a population very quickly once a mechanism of resistance has evolved. Rational design of antibiotics which act in new ways, as well as wholly new strategies such as nanotechnology and new materials, will be paramount to staying ahead of the increasing danger that resistant pathogens pose, and this Collection aims to bring together studies that work towards that aim.

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Advancements in sensing, actuation, and communication are converging to bring about new modes of interaction, experience, and entertainment. This convergence will lead towards different kinds of engagements with the spaces in which we live, work, play, and learn. The built environment is becoming an intelligent partner, taking care of operational and repetitive tasks, understanding, and supporting human activities and needs while freeing people to engage in healthier, more productive, and creative pursuits. Homes, office and industrial buildings, airports, or other infrastructure, as well as the furniture, appliances, and building materials that compose the built environment can engage in and be the subject of human-building interaction in a technology-enabled intelligent partnership.

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Pollination is an essential part of a plants’ sexual reproduction, involving interactions between ovule and pollen, as well as insect and plant. The cellular biology underlying pollination is complex, most notably with the formation and elongation of the pollen tube in angiosperms, and its delivery of the male gametes to the ovule. Likewise, for insect-mediated pollination there is a great variety of relationships to consider, with both generalists and specialists, and interactions occurring at a broad range of scales. Given the present circumstances of both climate change and insect decline, understanding the processes underlying these interactions, and their potential ecological significance, carries great importance.

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客座编辑：Marios Constantinou, Sylvain Delouvée, Aaron Drummond

In recent years, people around the world have been affected by a virus-like spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories - eliciting high-charged discussion around topics such as political incentives, the efficacy of Covid-19 treatments or vaccine safety. As such, the psychology of conspiracy and misinformation beliefs is a highly relevant and timely topic. This Collection explores cognitive, social and affective processes driving conspiracy and misinformation belief formation as well as the resistance to knowledge revision. Furthermore, research will examine the association between the tendency to endorse misinformed views and personal factors such as cognitive styles or personality traits. Taking into account the different psychological aspects of conspiracy and misinformation beliefs, work from various subfields of psychology will be considered for inclusion in the Collection.

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