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ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Context: There are currently about 82.3 million COVID-19 cases worldwide with 24% of these cases being severe and a 2% mortality rate due to late medical attention. COVID patients have commo…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
In this project, a prosthetic arm was developed using an alternate communication pathway to enable movement in amputees. A brain-computer interface was established, providing the opportunity…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
The scientist set out to further optimize on a previous Bessel Function approach to improving blood circulation using complex ultrasonic waveform. An algorithm and associated C code was deve…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
One in one hundred children born in the United States alone is born with a congenital heart defect (or CHD). A CHD is any defect that is present at birth, which can vary from a hole in the s…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Color Vision Deficiency is the most common genetic disability, affecting over 400 million people in the world, and currently has no cure. There are attempts to mitigate the effect of color v…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
High cost, proprietary parts, complex manufacturing techniques, and transport issues limited our ability to produce enough ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of my project wa…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
The comparative analysis of natural polymer-based biomimetic neural scaffolds using the taxic response of fungal mycelium was designed to investigate functional deficits following Spinal cor…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
More than a hundred thousand patients do tracheotomy every year for throat cancer or mouth cancer, and they need to wear tracheal tubes after surgeries. But the current tracheal tube has led…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Current upper limb prostheses lack effective and intuitive control systems and are often exorbitantly expensive. As a result, while prosthesis use can significantly increase quality of life,…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Methods of regenerative medicine have the potential to overcome the limitations of conventional medicine in treating complex bone defects. In this project, to address these limitations, the…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
The ARTHETA-0 is a 3D printer with a novel motion system that specializes in printing vascular-stents. The stent manufacturing industry, as it stands, uses extremely inefficient and unafford…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
216,262,500. That’s the number of steps an average human takes over their lifetime, yet the shoes that humans use for this have not evolved over time and are found to have major flaws such a…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to create a cost-effective, portable, automated UVC sterilizing system that kills bacteria on money through the sanitizing properties of UVC light. Multipl…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Microorganisms are observed every day in the hopes of finding new developments that will help gain new insights into human health. Many organisms move quite fast under the microscope's field…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Decellularization is a promising technique for creating biomaterial scaffolds that uniquely possess properties that cannot be 3D printed and are used for artificial organ and tissue regenera…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Let’s say your loved one has been getting nauseous every day, and they’ve been experiencing heavy pain in their chest and arms for months now. Of course, you go to the doctor, hopefully it’s…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Currently, 1.5 billion people worldwide suffer from some level of hearing loss. However, only 17% of those who would benefit greatly from using a hearing aid use one. Hearing aids can cost a…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Every year in the U.S alone 100+ people die and thousands experience heart attacks while shoveling the snow. Studies show that the combination of cold air, which constricts arteries, and str…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Designing synthetic genes for heterologous expression is a keystone of biotechnology. In protein sequences—as there are 61 sense codons but only 20 standard amino acids—most amino acids are…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Cancer is a terrible disease that has personally impacted close members of the author’s family over recent times. Cancer affects millions every year, both physically and mentally, for as wel…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Cancer is Curable, But only when it is detected in its early stages. When focusing on genital skin cancer matters become worse since factors like privacy, comforts, social hurdles and restri…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
The revolutionized biomedical industry has a deep connection with the utilization of synthetic biology, to create multi-functional, complex but minimalistic, non-invasive biomedical devices.…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder with different types of seizures, some of them characterized by involuntary recurrent convulsions, which have a great impact on the everyday life…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
The study of microtechnologies has received great attention in recent decades. With the rapid development of society, the need for high-level equipment has also increased, thus requiring the…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) result in 13,000 deaths in the US annually. The Foley catheter design promotes biofilm formation - the underlying cause of CAUTIs. In Ph…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetically inherited eye disorder affecting 1 in 4000 people worldwide, characterized by progressive devolution of retina that leads to progressive visual los…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Sending experiments to the International Space Station is expensive; therefore, clinostats are used to perform microgravity simulations. Although 3D clinostats provide an accurate simulation…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Jaundice affects millions of newborns globally. It’s the seventh leading cause of death and most common condition requiring medical attention in newborns. This project involved a complete re…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Insufficient lubrication of cartilage, a protective layer of joints, is one of the leading causes of osteoarthritis (OA). Thus, improving cartilage lubrication is a promising approach to hea…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Asthma is the most prevalent respiratory condition in the world, affecting over 340 million people, and remains one of the common underlying causes of death. Yet, one in three patients are m…