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ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Absorbing aerosols represent significant uncertainties in environmental science and pose serious environmental issues worldwide, especially in urban and arid regions like the Middle East Nor…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Diachronic linguistics is the scientific study of language and its change across time. Historically, the vast majority of research in the field has overfocused on languages with large speake…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Juniperus (L.) is the second most prevalent genus of conifers worldwide. This study focuses on Juniperus procera (L.) because of its natural abundance of photochemical components that have p…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Invasive Rhodophyta (red macroalgae) species Dasysiphonia japonica & Gracilaria are threatening environmental and human health by outcompeting native seaweeds and releasing toxins from harmf…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequently diagnosed disease among women, with 2.3 million new cases and 669,000 deaths identified in 2022 alone. Most studies on epigenetic diagnosis biomarke…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics Fourth Award
Hensel’s Lemma is the foundation of p-adic number theory and, as discovered in this study, a possible way to revolutionize the math behind elliptic curve cryptography. It works by lifting a…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
As populations around the world grow older and pandemics ravage global health, the burdens of age-related diseases, such as arthritis, heart disease, and cancer, are increasingly prevalent.…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The increasing prevalence of dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease (AD), has prompted urgent exploration of interventions for patients, particularly those with Mild Cognitive Impairment…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Background: Heart disease is the foremost cause of death worldwide, and specialty care such as cardiologists and expensive Doppler echocardiograms are scarce in rural areas. There is signifi…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
The p53 gene is a tumor suppressor in the human body that is mutated in 50-60% of human cancers. p53 acts to suppress retrotransposons (jumping genes) within the genome which are prevalent i…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by social and verbal impairments, affecting 1 in 36 children. ASD diagnosis is based on behavioral observations…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
In the context of an increasingly technological society and a demographic trend towards an aging population, the challenge of aiding individuals with compromised hand functionality in conduc…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Oral administration is a common drug delivery way in our daily lives. However, achieving precise target delivery and ensuring medication efficacy in the digestive system with complex pH envi…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Breast cancer affects 2.3 million women annually with the five-year survival rate for Triple-negative-breast-cancer (TNBC) being 12%. Current immunotherapy treatments are effective only in 2…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics Fourth Award
An important step towards the classification of finite-dimensional pointed Hopf algebras, which are algebraic structures with a wide range of fundamental applications to mathematics and phys…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Current reforestation practices are limited, with many failing to meet the necessary rates required for forest expansion. In view that commonly used multicriteria analyses introduce subjecti…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are the 2 most common leukemias. The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be 59,610 leukemia cases a…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Hydroponic farming is rapidly gaining popularity because of its consistency and sustainability. Thousands of hydroponic farms are being built around the world as reliable food sources to mat…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Despite major advancements in biological sciences and technologies, we have yet to tap into the full potential of plants. They have the ability to produce a variety of proteins, some of whic…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Lung and ovarian cancers continue to be leading causes of cancer deaths in the United States, and refining the treatment of these cancers is needed to improve patient survival. The goal of t…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Globally, numerous living organisms suffer from viral infections. Genome annotation is the process of mapping coding-sequences (CDS) of a genome. CDS are the portions of the genome that are…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Background: Escalating natural disasters demand rapid, efficient, and safe response solutions. This project introduces a cost-effective autonomous drone system designed for disaster relief a…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Organoids are a 3D stem cell model which recapitulate the physiology of human organs and are derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The purpose of this project was to optimize…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Visually impaired individuals have dif?culty understanding their environment and the actions of others due to their limited visual abilities. Previous research has shown that approaches used…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Problem: Wheeled robotics research and commercial application development is inhibited by the lack of a powerful, durable, and accessible robotics platform that can operate omnidirectionally…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) is the deadliest urological disease in the world, accounting for more than 200,000 deaths annually. Detection before metastasis can improve 5-year survival rates d…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
This project developed a leader-wingman drone swarm that can autonomously detect and track objects of interest (OOI). The leader drone is a custom-built X500 quadcopter equipped with a Jetso…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Every year, 124 million women receive Papanicolaou exams; and every year 4,000 die from cervical cancer. The root of this disparity lies in the outdated devices used to collect cervical cell…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology Fourth Award
Doxorubicin is a globally utilized drug for cancer treatment. This drug has unfortunate cardiotoxic side-effects through drug-induced functional loss of iron-regulatory proteins (IRP1, IRP2)…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Developing sustainable technologies to harness solar energy for wastewater treatment and hydrogen fuel production is crucial for addressing global energy and environmental challenges. In thi…