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ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
The impact of sport jackets on adjusting backbone vertebra during running for the players of speed specialty in the athletics association in 2015-2016 it aims to remove barriers which are ha…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
Abnormal blood vessel growth, termed neovascularization, causes diseases such as wet-age related macular degeneration (wet AMD), leading to blindness. Wet AMD is a chronic eye disease that c…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Electronic-cigarettes, or Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), represent a major public health issue, but little is known about their toxicological effects when inhaled. This study e…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Trichotillomania is a psychological condition that has no known causes or cures. While this condition, which causes people to compulsively pull out their hair, is believed to be multifactori…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest gynecological cancers as a result of a lack of robust early detection methods and high rates of resistance after initial chemotherapy. Many experiments…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Ibuprofen is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, effective in the treatment of inflammatory diseases such as arthritis. This research aims to develop a biodegradable and in situ forming…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Common antibiotics are becoming less effective as bacteria are acquiring an increased resistance. A solution to this problem may lie in plant derived allelopathic molecules (allelomolecules)…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
China’s society has entered a period of population aging. The pension crisis has become a significant social problem in China. The object of this research is, through the analysis of the nee…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that leads to severe metabolic deficits. This project investigates the molecular mechanisms of metabolic dysregulatio…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
For years, cancer has been thought of as an evolutionary process, responding to varying selective pressures throughout the body in an effort to survive. Due to the fact that reiterative roun…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Immunotherapy represents one of the more promising approaches to treating melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. This type of therapy involves boosting the immune system's ability to…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Interleukin-4 (IL-4), a cytokine found in excess in the tumor microenvironment, is known to induce cancer cell proliferation. In vitro research suggests that the IL-4-induced activation of t…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Over two hundred million people suffer from osteoporosis, a severe bone degenerative disease which damages bone tissue, leading to high rates of non-healing fractures and bone defects. There…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The idea behind this project was to first research how the Anterior Cruciate Ligament(ACL) tore. Then discover who is at risk for this injury and why. A Quadricep angle(Q-angle) is the degre…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Corneas are among the most frequently transplanted tissues in the United States, with some 46,000 surgeries performed annually. Unfortunately, they can typically be stored for only 7-10 days…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Background: Strain and Left ventricular mass (LVM) determination are essential for the evaluation of the progress and function of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Free of geometric assumpt…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
HIV-1 affects the immune system by destroying CD4 cells and thus weakening the immune system. Our main aim was to prepare to prepare pardaxin and it assess its effect on HIV virus? an antimi…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Cell immortality sounds good but is root cause of most cancers. This happens when certain functional tags attach to DNA periphery, suppressing apoptosis (self-dead), allowing uncontrollable…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Recent changes in the field of oncology have placed an emphasis on targeting cancer stem cells (CSCs) in order to effectively treat cancer. Despite the increased attention, an effective mech…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Recently, Continuous Flow (CF) Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) have emerged as a long term alternative to heart transplant in heart failure patients. However, CF VAD support diminishe…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Chocolate and caffeine are well-known to affect the quality of sleep. Chocolate, however,contains only minimal traces of caffeine but larger amounts of theobromine, a related alkaloid stimul…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
In America nearly 14 million people abuse alcohol and suffer from alcoholism. Moreover, nearly 6.6 million children under the age of 18 have at least one parent that is an alcoholic. The eff…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Diabetes is a serious worldwide epidemic that affects a growing portion of the population. While the most common method for testing blood glucose involves finger pricking, it is painful and…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Cellulosic bioethanol, an alternative energy source produced by saccharification and fermentation of plant polysaccharides such as cellulose and hemicellulose, is a promising renewable energ…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Past studies indicated that Drosophila (fruit flies) share 75% of the genes that cause diseases with humans. Thus by studying fruit fly genetics, one can learn about human genetics and possi…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a highly promising field of survey science that hasn't been fully explored on mammalian species. The river otter species (Lontra canadensis), is a prime candidate…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis - This name was given to a bacterium first described in Japan in 2004. Five years later scientists in Zurich, Switzerland discovered its human pathogenicit…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that is triggered by the ingestion of gluten, a protein present in wheat, rye, oat, barley and its derivatives. If not correctly treated, the disease…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
A novel antigen-presenting cell (APC)-targeted immunomodulatory nanoparticle (NP) was developed as a vaccination platform, with potential uses such as cancer therapeutics. The nanoparticle e…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering First Award
In this innovative research, a novel oncolytic virus, AM105, is designed to target and selectively kill cancer cells. Current methods of cancer treatment including radiation and chemotherapy…