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 · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Hollow organ simulators have been introduced as alternatives to in-vivo testing to study disease mechanisms, therapeutics delivery, and medical devices. To date, these systems don’t allow fo…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, which affects nearly 200,000 patients annually in the United States, can be accompanied by joint bleeding but the effects of whole blood components a…
AJAS · 2024
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Urine output is an important indicator of the level of renal impairment in patients. Accurately measuring urine output is critical in the treatment of hospitalized patients with renal injury…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Walking, constituting a significant portion of human energy expenditure, has spurred research into ankle exoskeletons aimed at mitigating energy consumption. Various exoskeleton designs have…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Hemorrhage, excessive loss of blood that is expressed through eventual shock and death, is one of the leading killers worldwide. Current methods of preventing hemorrhage have many side effec…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Electroencephalograms (EEGs) are devices that offer a non-intrusive way to measure the electrical activity of the brain, with various applications such as monitoring neurological conditions.…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this initial project stage was to identify parameters needed for artificial lungs to be optimally functional in the human body and lay the foundation for future research regar…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Bed sores are a hidden, critical problem in society. The elderly population, stroke, coma, and spinal cord injury patients or any other immobile patients face this problem. Dead cells, forme…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The polarization of light, a fundamental property, finds extensive utility in various applications, notably in the realm of optical polarimetry. This project presents a novel approach utiliz…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
This project implements a novel detection system based on Rolling Circle Amplification (RCA) and Cas12a for miRNA biomarkers, and provides an efficient and cost-effective approach for the di…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Human Mesh Recovery is the challenge of predicting thousands of three-dimensional points on the human body surface, supporting critical applications in medicine, augmented reality, animation…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
According to the World Health Organization, The world’s biggest killer is ischaemic heart disease, responsible for 16% of the world’s total deaths. Since 2000, the largest increase in fatali…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The recording of neuronal action potentials from multiple neurons in humans has been a notable advancement for better understanding the nervous system. When our sensory nerves are activated,…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The human brain is one of the most unknown yet essential parts where many life threatening diseases such as strokes, Alzheimer's Disease (AD), and Parkinson's Disease (PD) begin silently. Br…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Approximately 50 million people globally rely on technology to replace a missing appendage, 80% of whom cannot afford current solutions and are left with costly, immobile, bulky prosthetics.…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Heart pumping is driven by cardiomyocyte (CM)contraction. However, there has been no direct approach to measuring CM beat. Fluorescent probes and electrical physiological techniques require…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering First Award
45% of people today are affected by oral diseases such as periodontal (gum) disease and dental caries (cavities). These can lead to tooth loss and have been linked to fatal diseases like can…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
People with spastic cerebral palsy sometimes develop contractures in the hands that cause the hand to close in on itself, reducing the range of motion (ROM). For children who use their hands…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
While rehabilitation gloves created by Soft Pneumatic Network Actuators (SPNAs) are cheaper, more flexible, and more resistant to water/fall damage, these SPNAs can easily tear or even explo…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Late-stage diagnosis in over 90% Alzheimer's Disease (AD) patients worldwide often occurs at the 5th stage, significantly reducing life expectancy to an average of 5-6 years. Current screeni…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Spinal treatment modalities such as spinal fusion and trauma surgery, radiofrequency ablation, and cancer biopsies require the utmost precision to avoid damaging critical structures such as…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Diabetes is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Loss of functional pancreatic ß-cell mass is key to both type 1 (T1D) and type 2 (T2D) diabetes. Islet macrophages have importa…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Flow meters that test lung function requires a device to measure airflow. Currently used devices are often flawed (vane anemometers) or are expensive and difficult to clean (pneumotachs). Pn…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The study is focused on the development of an innovative biosensor for the quick and cost-efficient measurement of dopamine levels, a critical need in the diagnosis and management of neurolo…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Over 8 million people worldwide have type 1 diabetes. Encapsulation of pancreatic islets is an experimental treatment that allows islets to avoid contact with immune cells, allowing for tran…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Accurate visualization of underlying anatomical structures is vital for precise surgical interventions, particularly in high-risk and minimally invasive procedures. Existing methods like flu…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Falls significantly impact public health, particularly among the elderly and those with certain health conditions, leading to roughly 68,400 deaths and numerous emergency interventions each…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of death among women due to cancer in the developing world. India contributes to 25% of these cancers. In low-resource settings, visual inspection with t…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Chemotherapy is often limited by unfavorable pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics that result in dose-limiting cytotoxicity. Therefore, self-assembling nanoparticles have been of particular…
AJAS · 2024
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Due to the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), individuals with RA cannot perform the meticulous finger movements required to tie one's shoelaces. The goal of this study was to design, bu…