38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Actin and actin associated proteins are involved in thin filament regulation which is important in the regulation of vessel contraction. The goal of this project is to find…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Amyloid-beta peptide (Aâ) is a potential cause of Alzheimer's disease, in which it accumulates in the brain, increasing monocyte migration across the blood brain barrier (BB…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project is to discover the molecular components underlying the evolutionary changes in development and physiology by comparing the dauer pathway(a devel…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine whether or not iodine molecules will be able to diffuse through a plastic sandwich bag (cell) containing a starch solution.The second objective w…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Problem/Statement: Can we identify tumor-specific proteins in a cat melanoma cell line? My objective is to see if there are proteins that are unique to the cat melanoma cell…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The recently sequenced genome of the plant Arabidopsis has revealed five proteins homologous to Chalcone Isomerase, a critical enzyme involved in plant biosynthesis. One of…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Organic anion transporters (OATs), transmembrane proteins found in the kidney, are important in the excretion of many commonly used drugs and environmental toxins, and it ha…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Apoptosis is a cell suicide program; however, effects of age and cell type on apoptosis in the brain are poorly understood. The age at which different brain cells are most s…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if the brining process does destroy the DNA of a cucumber. Methods/Materials Brining cucumbers, brined pickles, and DNA extracting equipment. D…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if age, dieting, and/or gender stimulates your sugar level or health. Methods/Materials Informed consent was taken from sixteen people eight di…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the experiment is to test how effectively red clover binds to the estrogen receptor (ER), and to see if the fresh plant extracts of red clover flowers and lea…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the cause of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). HIV causes disease by killing the T-cells of the host and destroying the h…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Thymidylate synthase (TS) is the enzyme that catalyzes the transformation of deoxyuridine monophosphate (dUMP) into deoxythymidine monophosphate (dTMP) in cells. In cancer c…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals To find out how Vitamin D3 will benefit bone formation by testing the effects of Vitamin D3 on osteocalcin mRNA expression in MG63 cells Methods/Materials Methods: 1). Grow…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to look at how we can control the rate of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction such as the breakdown of hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen (2H2O2>>H2O + O2) which is c…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals My primary goal in this project was to successfully synthesize mosquito odorant binding protein-8 in E.coli bacteria. In order to accomplish this I had to first create a wor…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if I can extract DNA from animal and plant specimens at home using common household materials, and to show that my sample extractions contained…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to research how enzymes such as Pectinase and Cellulase increased the amount of apple juice produced, and to find a way to produce the most amount of apple…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Currently, all methods of detecting anthrax have ninety-four to ninety-six percent accuracy. This four to six percent margin of error can be catastrophic when viewed on a na…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals H. bacteriophora, P. luminescens, and Drosophila constitute a useful system for studying bacterial-nematode symbiosis, bacterial-insect pathogenesis, and nematode-insect par…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals This experiment was designed to test the hypothesis that food items containing a protein-digesting enzyme will prevent gelatin from solidifying. On a box of gelatin, it stat…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if a correlation exists between the proximity of microRNAs (miRNAs) to oncogenes related to specific cancers, and incidence rates for each spec…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals I decided to find out if actively dividing cells would have more messenger RNA (mRNA) than cells that are not actively dividing. Messenger RNA is one of the most important p…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine if mutations in Nod2, a gene thought to be involved in Crohn's disease, affects the activation of the inflammatory response due t…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Vital to our understanding of cellular responses is the identification of regulatory proteins in the transduction pathways responsible for the expression of genes. To increa…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to develop a new protocol to track ATP production in mitochondrion cells and use it to determine which pH level, acid-4, base-10, or neutral…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Cancer is a genetic disease, and Genes are made of DNA. DNA is continually being damaged by oxygen free radicals generated in the air that we breathe. I sought a scientific…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to see if the ENTP (Extroverted, Thinking, iNtuitive, Perceiving) Brain Type shows a higher correlation with a 7 repeat sequence on the fourth…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals I conducted this experiment to test the effect of temperature on the ability of the proteolytic enzyme bromelein (found in pineapple) to digest protein. My independent varia…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to establish positive localization of phosphorylated GSK3beta (inactivated) and phosphorylated AKT1 (activated) in the mouse testes tubule, therefore accept…