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.
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
While cancer starts as a single cell, termed cancer stem cell (CSC), the progeny CSCs are not created equal, but exhibit a spectrum of phenotypes of varying renewal capacities, metastatic po…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The prevailing identification and diagnosis of bacteria species requires the shipment of temperature-sensitive biological samples to a microbiology laboratory for biochemical, genetic or imm…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Objective: Stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte spheroids show enormous potential as cell delivery systems that improve cell retention and engraftment. Their survival post-transplantation in isch…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Cardiac Troponin I (cTnI) has been the ideal biomarker for myocardial infarction diagnosis in the past decade. In our experiment, we presented a new method for increasing the sensitivity of…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The recent Zika outbreak in over 48 countries has severe socioeconomic impact due to its damage to fetal brain development. Currently, Zika virus (ZIKV) is diagnosed with polymerase chain re…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Diabetes currently affects over 346 million people worldwide and is one of the leading causes of death. Current treatment requires frequent blood-glucose tests followed by necessary insulin…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The prevention of concussion and sub concussive injury in helmeted activities are of great military, commercial, legal, and medical interest. A Summation of Tests for the Analysis of concuss…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
In the United States, athletes suffer roughly 3.8 million concussions per year. Unfortunately, many current concussion diagnostics are subjective, placing athletes in potentially dangerous s…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Quantitative measurement of human gait is currently prohibitively expensive in the field of orthotics and prosthetics. This project is investigating the capabilities of a relatively inexpens…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
DNA-sequenced engineering of protein nucleants may reduce limitations associated with protein crystallization and structure determination for structure-based drug development. This project i…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Spider silk is a very valuable but elusive material. It is 30 times tougher than steel yet is difficult to obtain. Synthetic production has had limited success because the chemical changes t…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Early detection of bacterial pathogens is increasingly important in health care. Currently, the most common method to detect hemolytic bacteria in blood is culture testing. This method is ti…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Realizing that the rehabilitation monitoring and correction devices for patients going under orthopedic surgeries of the lower limb are quiet trivial, we decided to tackle the subject and tr…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Respiratory diseases present a challenge to public health in both industrialized and developing countries due to their frequency, economic impact, severity and projected trends. Additionally…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
60,000 domestic cases of Parkinson’s disease (PD) are diagnosed annually, while 7 million individuals have Essential Tremor (ET). My project provides simulation, diagnosis, and therapy to re…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Intracortical microelectrodes are essential tools in the rapidly growing brain-computer interface (BCI) and brain-machine interface (BMI) fields. The development of flexible intracortical mi…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Parkinson’s disease is one of the most commonly seen neurodegenerative diseases. It has no cure and becomes worse over time. Parkinson’s symptoms often go unnoticed in early stages, leading…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The current methods used to kill and inhibit microbes though rapid and accurate, these methods involve the use of chemicals and antimicrobial drugs which are harmful and can lead to the deve…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) hold tremendous potential in regard to tissue and bone regeneration. This study evaluated the effects of nanoscale surface topography and cell-plating density…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this research is to design and build an in-shoe fall detection system, as well as test the market for demand. The first phase of the project involved learning the Arduino lang…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The aim of this work is the creation of brain - computer interface for studies of human biorhythms. In the work conducted a unique experiment to determine frequency ranges of biorhythms in v…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Elevated levels of highly-reactive non-transferrin bound iron (NTBI) are common in many diseases with iron dyshomeostasis and are a marker of their progression. Chelation therapy is an effec…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Oral and intravenous methods of drug delivery distribute drugs systemically, resulting in low drug efficacy and side effects. Thus, polymeric nanocarriers that can target drug release in res…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Over 50% of student football athletes sustain undetected concussions due to improper diagnosis, leading to increased risk of permanent brain damage. An EEG sensor and a diagnostic algorithm…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The invention of medical imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has revolutionized the way doctors locate brain tumors. MR images aid identification of tumor location an…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The world is plagued with dangerous situations including everything from accidents to wars that often result in people losing a hand, arm, or leg. Industrial accidents, as a result of danger…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this researcher's project is to design, 3D print, construct, and code a mind controlled robotic prosthesis that models and functions anatomically similar to the human left arm…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Heart valves regulate unidirectional flow of blood in the heart. Various valvular defects may affect proper function (insufficiency-regurgitation, stenosis, rupture, deformation). These cond…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
In developing areas where professional medical care is scarce, the labor complications that result in the development of obstetric fistulae are common and the effects devastating, with over…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Sleep is an essential factor in maintaining the physiological function of the human body, people who work day night reversed suffer from sleep problem, which is seriously harmful to health.…