Browse 79 real Cellular and Molecular Biology projects entered in 2009, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2009
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my investigation was to find a safe way to repel mosquitoes from laying their eggs in horses' water troughs. I tested this by mixing catnip extract with paint…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The presence of gluten was tested using three different enzyme formulas: Gluten Digest, Gluten Ease, and Ultra-Zyme, to determine which enzyme breaks down gluten the best af…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Mussel adhesion is achieved through secreted proteins such as mfp3 and mfp5, which have a high proportion of the modified amino acid Dopa. Dopa is suspected to be a key play…
CSEF · 2009
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which cleaner I should use to clean my bathroom based on which would kill the most bacteria. Methods/Materials The materials included: petri di…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals To see which onion has the most DNA Methods/Materials onions, measuring cups, test tubes, bowls, alcohol Results Yellow Onion had the most DNA Conclusions/Discussion Hypothe…
CSEF · 2009
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Life today is very fast paced. To keep up with this, our world is full of modern conveniences. One popular time saver is bagged lettuce. The lettuce industry promotes their…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if the banana#s DNA denatures overtime. In this experiment, the bananas are categorized into three different ripening stages: the under-ripe, r…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of the current study is to develop novel assays based on autophagic and apoptotic cell death markers to evaluate the function of transplanted islets in Type 1…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Prostate Cancer is one of the most common type of cancer for men over the age of 50. Thus deciphering the mechanism that promotes this cancer growth in an organism is of gre…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals How effective is cloning a human gene in a bacterial strain by transformation as genetic recombination in various bacterial strains? Methods/Materials 1. After sterilizing a…
CSEF · 2009
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My 1st goal was to find with toothpaste worked best at preventing the decaying the soda caused. My 2nd goal was to find out which soda was the worst for teeth. Methods/Mater…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Because structure dictates the function of proteins - physiological or pathological - protein structure discovery is of great interest to biological science. Though experime…
CSEF · 2009
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine how consistent blood glucose meters are when testing a range of blood glucose levels. Methods/Materials I tested my blood gluco…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to compare the difference in sizes of color molecules in two different brands of food coloring dye. My goal is to show which color molecules are the smalles…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Overfishing is a major factor in the decline of fish diversity, and productivity of fisheries worldwide. In order to combat overfishing, DNA barcoding could be utilized to i…
CSEF · 2009
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Evaluate Debbie Meyer Green Bags to determine if they are better for storing fruits and vegetables than just using Ziploc plastic bags or no bags, with or without refrigerat…
CSEF · 2009
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine how the fat content of whole fat, low fat, and nonfat milk and yogurt affects its taste, and how 8th graders and adults can taste the difference bet…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to measure the effect of microwave radiation on the amount of chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b in spinach, lettuce, and bok choy extracts.…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment is to learn about enzymes and what they do in the human body. Methods/Materials Materials 1. Apple sauce. 2.Balance for weighing the apple sauce…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our experimentation was to find the source of ethanol, cellulosic or non-cellulosic, that provided the greatest yield of ethanol content after fermentation. V…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals There is currently an enormous forensic DNA backlog, meaning a large number of DNA samples from criminals have not been analyzed to create DNA profiles and entered into the…
CSEF · 2009
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the critical freeze period for an orange. The goal is to identify the material that prevents an orange from freezing for the critical freeze pe…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine if ripe fruit yields the most extractable DNA utilizing underripe, ripe and overripe bananas, kiwis and strawberries. Methods/Ma…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The main objective of the experiment was to observe if the common household wastes, such as apple and banana peelings, were suitable to be used as another source of producin…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals How does the processing of strawberries affect the amount of DNA extracted? Methods/Materials Four batches of strawberries were treated differently prior to extracting DNA:…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals Prostate Cancer metastasis caused by the activation of cell surface receptors, such as EGFR, ERK, and AKT1. Cleaved high molecular-weight kininogen (HKa) is an anti-adhesive…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The experiment that I have put together is designed to determine the genome toxicity of certain common household chemicals that allegedly cause cancer. I want to know how mu…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals Last year, I tried to develop a nontoxic, visual selection method for identifying transgenic organisms using a reporter gene assay. I was able to accomplish this with modera…
CSEF · 2009
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals A brief overview of this project is to find out which drink has the most electrolytes. The main purpose of this experiment was to see which drink has the most electrolytes a…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals After returning from a 10 day vacation, I realized that milk from only one of the two containers with the same expiry date had gone bad. One container was opened for use man…