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 · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Current dog prosthetics for the foreleg and shoulder are rigid and limiting for canines. These prosthetics do not allow the animal to lay down, sit properly, or traverse harsh terrain withou…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a fear of a global ventilator shortage for treating patients. This prompted the development of low-cost ventilator designs worldwide. SimplyV…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Computed tomography (CT) is a three-dimensional imaging modality that uses X- ray beams to produce cross-sectional information of an object or a patient. CT suffers from multiple inherent li…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals suffer disproportionately from vaccine preventable diseases. This is due, at least in part, to a lack of accessible screening tools for such illne…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Glioblastoma multiforme is an aggressive brain tumor with the lowest survival rate of any human cancer due to its invasive growth dynamics. These dynamics result in recurrent tumor pockets h…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Stroke is a significant health problem, imposing a growing burden on patients, families, and healthcare systems. Many stroke patients experience diminished confidence in walking independentl…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The detection of extremes in health is imperative to the preservation of human life. From the staple stethoscope in every medical institution, to as simple a scale in someone’s bathroom, acc…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Breast cancer ranks first among the most common types of cancer globally, regionally and locally, as early detection of breast cancer increases the cure and survival rate, increases treatmen…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The current Covid-19 pandemic has developed not only a global public health crisis, but also a very serious impact on production chains. Leveraged by the urgency of the scarcity of resources…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
While bone diseases may not receive as much attention as heart disease, cancer, and other serious illnesses, they account for more than half a million hospitalizations and the annual placeme…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
This experiment aimed to determine the viability of Gefitinib, an epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor, as a treatment for triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC) and to illustrate the p…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
My problem was what female animal tendon is sufficient for anterior cruciate ligament grafts in humans. Testing this would allow me to give patients another grafting option to lessen postope…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Advances in current treatment methods for Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), surgery followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy and surgery, have not improved the prognosis of GBM. The objective…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of non-invasive glucose monitoring using spectroscopy and machine learning. The spectral measurements were performed on a pa…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Traumatic injury accounts for over 150,000 deaths per year, and millions of non-fatal injuries per year (Connoway, 2020). Additionally, out of the 1.1 million burn victims admitted to US hos…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Thousands of people suffer from skin damage or burns every year, accidents that can cause disability or even death. The present work proposed a new concept of intelligent dressing for tissue…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Essential tremor, which affects millions in the United States, is a progressive and incurable movement disorder characterized by uncontrollable shaking of the hands and arms during voluntary…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common degenerative disease of central nervous system among elderly people, with an estimate of over 8.5 million patients in 2019. But currently, only 40…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Paralysis is a medical condition that results in the loss of the ability to move some or all parts of the body. Even though treatments for some kinds of paralysis exist, there's currently no…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
According to a study conducted by the Reeve Foundation, approximately 2% of the United States population lives with paralysis, excluding those suffering from various motor control disorders…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
For children in need of a heart valve replacement there are many options available. However, none of the available prosthesis are long term solutions. Because the valves are unable to grow a…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness, affecting 1 in 100 people worldwide. Unfortunately, due to its asymptomatic nature, it often goes undetected leading to permanent vision lo…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Over 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, with the number projected to more than double by 2050. The number of people with various dementias is also expected to increase from 55…