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ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Third Award
Each year, 2 million Americans acquire antibiotic-resistant infections and 23,000 die. Unfortunately, the scientific consensus is that no new classes of antibiotics are left to be discovered…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Network states are prevalent in virtually all behaviors. In most cases, they are established by the actions of neuromodulators. To produce articulate behaviors, neuromodulators upregulate th…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Experiment Purpose Inside the earth’s mantle, chemical reactions take place between different rocks via a fluid-rock reactions which in turn influence their chemical properties. These reacti…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Type 1 and 2 diabetics typically require exogenous insulin to maintain normal blood glucose levels. Insulin pumps have been shown to significantly improve quality of life and diabetes manage…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
A plummet in the research productivity of drug discovery has been observed in recent decades, with higher costs, longer timelines, and lower success rates of drug candidates in clinical tria…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Malnutrition is the leading cause of child death and treatment reaches only a small fraction of those in need due to costly recipes and inefficient supply chains. Here we develop a three-com…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical Third Award
With global consumption of fossil fuels at an all-time high, climate change has catalyzed one of the greatest sustainability challenges facing the world today. At the cutting-edge of materia…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
With advancements in science and medicine, the population of older adults has grown around the world in recent years. As a result, fall detection systems are necessary for the wellbeing of o…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
A quantitative analysis comparing player’s perceived quality of cello bows and rosins, and string motion has been carried out using a novel optoelectronic cello. Novel optical sensors direct…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Flood forecasting in India is carried out by the determination of the water level at flood forecasting stations. The level forecasts are issued once water levels in a station reach a predefi…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
Fatigue cracks are inevitable yet microscopic aircraft damages, often being the main factor leading to in-flight break-ups. Non-destructive testing (NDT) is generally used in detecting possi…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
According to UNICEF, Kenya has a very high prevalence of child mortality rate which is approximately 49/1000 live births. In 2017 Kenya had an estimated 502,860 children who had missed the r…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Antibiotic pollution in soils and groundwater is one of the world’s most pressing problems. There are 1.4 micrograms of antibiotics per liter of freshwater and 125,000 tons of antibiotics po…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Cancer has two halves: malignant cells that initiate oncogenesis, and cancer stromal cells that form the tumor microenvironment. Isocitrate dehydrogenases (IDHs) are enzymes in normal cellul…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences Third Award
12% of the global population is impacted by undernutrition, the number one risk to health worldwide, affecting one in three children in developing countries. Fresh produce has large nutritio…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Third Award
The Chikungunya and Dengue viruses are arboviruses transmitted by the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Co-circulation of Dengue and the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) make it diffic…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Studying B cell receptor (BCR) binding is crucial for understanding how the human adaptive immune system attacks cancer cells – information that can translate into targeted and more efficaci…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
Our engineering study aims to develop and create a transmission which alleviates all the current issues of the modern CVT, making it viable for usage on a majority of light duty vehicles, by…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems Third Award
Blindness affects nearly 40 million people worldwide—a value expected to double before 2050. The modern world is incredibly dense with visual information, and incidentally, a Blind Visually…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma(PDA) is one of the most malignant tumors, with an estimated 50,000 diagnoses and deaths per year. Current therapies have little effect on PDA due to the tumor’s lar…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software Third Award
Nowadays, Virtual Prototyping and therefore simulation technology is an indispensable part of most product development cycles. The steadily increasing demand for better, cheaper and more rel…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems Third Award
According to a World Health Organization report, every year natural disasters kill around 90,000 people and affect close to 160 million people worldwide. Natural disasters include earthquake…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Rubber can store an amazing amount of energy. Therefore, hobbyists have used rubber strands to power model airplanes for more than one hundred years. The main goal of modelers is to achieve…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Physical Third Award
Novel hybrid wind turbines are proposed in the present project. The turbines utilize coupling permanent magnet disks and additional motor/generator to widen the range of operable wind speed…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
The challenge of finding the HIV cure lies in latent HIV-infected cells, which are inert to current HIV treatment. Since CD32a has been identified as a potential biomarker of latent HIV-infe…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical Third Award
The world’s unsustainable reliance on fossil fuels prompts the intense search for innovation to enable paradigm shift to renewable energy. A promising solution is to harness abundant solar e…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences Third Award
Brazil is the biggest orange producer in the world and the state of Paraná is the third biggest producer in Brazil. Because this fruit has low shelf life, agrochemicals are widely used to co…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetals (3D-TDSMs) have unusually high mobility at room temperature due to their unique linear electronic band dispersion and nontrivial band topology.…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Third Award
Periodontitis is one of the most prevalent inflammatory diseases, with an annual expense of 14 billion dollars on the disease therapy. It is the leading cause of tooth loss among adults and…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a retinal angiogenic disorder that results from rapid microvascular proliferation after exposure to oxygen supplementation in preterm infants. It is curre…