Browse 105 real Biomedical and Health Sciences projects from AJAS, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a developmental disorder characterized by physical, cognitive, and behavioral abnormalities resulting from alcohol exposure during pregnancy. To better unders…
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality, primarily due to its high metastatic potential and the difficulty of early detection. Current clinical approaches rely on a…
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the accumulation of neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, leading to cognitive decline and neuro…
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
The ketogenic diet is commonly used to prevent seizures in children with drug-resistant epilepsy. However, due to its unpleasant taste and difficulty in adherence, many children must receive…
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most predominant malignant brain cancer in adults without prognosis improvement in decades (average survival interval of 14-17 months). Nevertheless, 83% of GBM cas…
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that is identified by cognitive decline, including memory loss and an impaired ability to perform daily, normal tasks, which leads to…
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease (NDD) that affects ~11% of adults over the age of 65. AD, like many other NDDs, is characterized by a buildup of misfolded…
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
1 in 5 individuals develops cancer in their lifetime. Due to treatment inefficiency, cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide. Unraveling immune cell-cancer cell interplay in the tumor…
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Cervical cancer remains a major public health concern, with disparities in incidence and mortality disproportionately affecting non-Latine (nL) Black women. Diabetes has been implicated in c…
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Background: Radiation therapy is an integral part of treatment for patients with brain cancers. Radiation-induced brain injury (RIBI) occurs in over 50% of patients, causing cognitive and ph…
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Ophthalmological diseases pose a significant public health challenge, with an estimated 93 million adults in the United States at high risk for serious vision loss. However, only half of the…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Cardiac arrhythmias represent a significant global health challenge, affecting millions annually and frequently leading to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment. Consequently, 75% of arrh…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a microvascular eye condition that can lead to vision loss and blindness in individuals with diabetes. DR has been on the rise over the past 30 years and is the…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Pancreatic Cancer (PC) has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers. PC is currently the third leading cause of cancer-related death, with a 5-year survival rate of 13% in the United…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
1 in 10 women are estimated to have endometriosis, an extremely painful disorder characterized by the external growth of endometrial tissue. It is linked to the increased risk of ovarian can…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Glioblastoma multiforme is one of the deadliest forms of brain tumors. Many genes are associated with its formation, progression, and survival, but no consensus has been reached on which som…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Levetiracetam, otherwise known as Keppra, is an anti-seizure medication. It is used to prevent seizures in people who have epilepsy. To test how Keppra affects seizure severity and duration,…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of vision loss in working-age adults worldwide, yet under-resourced regions lack sufficient ophthalmologists for accurate early detection and preven…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
1 in 5 individuals develop cancer in their lifetime. Primarily due to treatment inefficiency, cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide. Deciphering immune cell-cancer cell interactions…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Lung cancer is a life-threatening disease that affects hundreds of thousands of patients every year. While conventional medicine offers effective treatments for lung cancer, the use of targe…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a highly malignant and prevalent form of brain cancer that continues to be largely incurable despite advancements in treatment modalities. The 2-year surviva…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Chronic inflammation is a leading cause of morbidity worldwide, complicating conditions such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and autoimmune disorders. Current anti-inflammatory tre…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
In recent years, advances in the diagnosis and prediction of diseases using machine learning (ML) has been growing exponentially. However, due to the many privacy regulations regarding perso…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is characterized by the absence of estrogen, progesterone, and HER2 receptors and poses a clinical challenge due to lack of actionable targets, aggressiv…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Diabetic retinopathy (DR), a primary cause of vision loss worldwide, is projected to affect 130 million individuals by 2030. Difficulties related to diagnosis have led to an estimated underd…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Across the world, millions of newborns suffer from severe neonatal jaundice, a condition that can cause neurological damage and death. Approaches such as laboratory blood tests and transcuta…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Glioblastoma is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults and continues to have a median survival time of less than 15 months. Some glioblastomas are resistant to common radios…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
From Ozempic to Alli, weight-loss drugs have gained popularity due to approximately 39% of the global population being obese, increasing the pharmaceutical demand for effective solutions. Al…
AJAS · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Mammograms are currently the primary method used for breast cancer detection. Although they have become much more commonplace in the past few decades, they still remain shockingly inaccurate…
AJAS · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common malignant adult brain tumor. With minimal clinical innovation, the prognosis for GBM patients remains grim. However, a commonality exists between 83% of…