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ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have become the #1 cause of death; three-quarters of these deaths occur in lower-income communities. Electrocardiography (ECG), an electrical measurement captu…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Despite testing negative for SARS-CoV-2, numerous patients began reporting a broad spectrum of acute post-recovery medical symptoms (Post Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC)), which they wer…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
PTSD is a neuropsychological disorder resulting from a traumatizing event. Given biases associated with self-assessment and diagnosis of PTSD, researchers are actively searching for unbiased…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on mental health due to the increased stress caused by the mental toll of events of the pandemic and isolation from necessary preventative measures s…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In this research paper, the effect of age, gender, comorbidities and dexamethasone on the time until IgM and IgG antibodies appear in the bloodstreams of hospitalized patients, infected with…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Bromelain is a potentially useful enzyme derived from pineapple plants that may protect cells from sun exposure. We tested whether bromelain sourced from pineapple waste could protect cells…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Millions of people in the USA alone suffer from celiac disease or gluten intolerance. In previous work, I identified three fruit-derived enzymes that when combined have an efficient effect i…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Restricted arm force during activity is often required following bone disruption (iatrogenic or traumatic) to facilitate osteogenesis, but measuring patient force is challenging, especially…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
The results of this project could enable real-time targeted transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to become a clinical reality, improving outcomes for patients with depression, schizophren…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cardiovascular disease and cognitive impairment are among the biggest healthcare challenges facing the elderly. Integrity of the blood brain barrier (BBB) and lining of the blood vessels req…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Existing drugs are being researched for novel repurposed usages to supplant the traditional, inefficient process of new drug discovery. Cephalexin is a cephalosporin antibiotic purported to…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Despite advancements in modern medicine, malaria continues to have high morbidity and mortality, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa where it is most prevalent. With an incidence of over 250…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Quaternary Ammonium Compounds (QAC) are antimicrobial agents that are used to eliminate bacteria and are found in products that advertise antimicrobial activity. During the ongoing pandemic,…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
TMEM-143 (Transmembrane protein 143) human gene is located in the Chr19q13.33 chromosomal region, which is known to be associated with the risk of type-2 diabetes and cancer. TMEM-143 gene i…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Coronavirus, an RNA virus that causes COVID-19, has spread widely around the globe. However, not only RNA-type viruses, but DNA-type also exist. An accurate and portable diagnostic technique…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which emerged globally in early 2020. The rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 spi…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Liver cysts characterize a multitude of illnesses ranging from liver cancer to autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). About 1 in 20 people have at least one liver cyst (Cnosse…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
COVID-19 is caused by an RNA virus called SARS-CoV-2. PCR testing is a gold-standard method for COVID-19 diagnostic testing. However, there exists no COVID-19 diagnostic test that has the ca…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Background: Substantial research suggests that therapeutic hypothermia could ameliorate the impact of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Our goals were: 1) Study the effects of concussion in a va…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
The tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) Lapatinib and Tucatinib are FDA-approved for the treatment of metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer. However, intestinal side effects, especially sever…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hormone therapy is commonly used to treat hormone-related cancers and there has been previous research which suggests that monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have had a positive therapeutic effect…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The aim of this research is to investigate the anti cancer activity of the AgEphe ( Silver nanoparticles green synthesis with EtOH extract of the Ephedra aphylla plant) against breast cancer…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Major depressive disorder, commonly known as MDD, is a mental illness that severely deteriorates and affects the brain in many ways. It impacts the way someone thinks and acts. Because of th…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The goal of this research project was to evaluate the effect of antepartum maternal position changes on labor and delivery outcomes. This was a randomized controlled clinical trial in a pilo…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the bacteria Bacillus cereus had any effect on the central nervous system of planaria (Dugesia tigrina). This study was conducted at a loca…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Upon experiencing a stress induced injury, organisms like humans and drosophila produce heat shock proteins, which protect cells from injury. When heat shock proteins are detected in tumors,…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer cells evade apoptosis, a cellular suicide process that plays a pivotal role in cancer, thus enabling excessive cell proliferation. Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancers, wh…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Formulating an HIV drug as an oral thin film (OTF) can overcome many drawbacks of the current WHO-approved pediatric HIV antiretroviral therapy regimen used in sub-Saharan Africa. The curren…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The main problem is that we want to solve the problem of endlessness, which is spreading wildly in the world including Azerbaijan. So we used the effect of saffron on the human hormonal syst…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by impaired memory and accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aß) plaque in the brain. Type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for devel…