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 · 2015
Translational Medical Science
CD47 is a ubiquitously expressed cell surface receptor for thrombospondin-1 and the counter receptor for signal-regulatory protein alpha- (SIRPa). High expression of CD47 on several types of…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The many current tests for dyslexia and other disabilities are generally expensive, time-consuming, and tedious. This research was done as a continuation of an attempt to see if video could…
CSEF · 2015
Toxicology Second Award
Objectives/Goals Bee pollination accounts for about $15 billion in added crop value and 1/3 of the food consumed in the U.S. For almost ten years, Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been res…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of investigating the biomarker of bladder cancer is to see if there's mutation in the biomarkers' regions since the same biomarker region of angiogenin from ALS was found to be m…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Autophagy is implicated in the pathogenesis of Huntington’s disease (HD), a fatal neurodegenerative disorder, and is unproductive in HD cells. This research focused on understanding cellular…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this research project was to determine if academic performance in primary grades was an indicator of academic performance in high school. It was hypothesized that students’ ac…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Stress in our society is a problem that affects almost everyone. This investigation sought to discover whether high perceived stress levels are related to lower prefrontal cortex functioning…
CSEF · 2015
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals Diabetes and obesity are affects millions of Americans each year. The objective of my experiment was to determine if Equal brand aspartame would be a viable dietary substitu…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This experiment examines the effectiveness of triggers and effects of jamais vu on students in high school by comparing reports of jamais vu. It was predicted that jamais vu would be trigger…
CSEF · 2015
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals I predict the compounds will have various effects on the Hydra#s regeneration which may include multiple budding, fast regeneration, retarded growth, extended tentacles, and…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Neurotransmitter-release is regulated by several pre synaptic proteins where Syntaxin and Complexin are crucial. The locomotor activity of Drosophila Melanogaster adult animals was evaluated…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This experiment developed a technique for improved quantitative diagnosis of mental disorders using intentionally ambiguous feedback in traditional pattern recognition testing. Pattern recog…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
A method is described for the analysis of cotinine, as a metabolite of nicotine, in saliva samples. The aim of this method is to compare cotinine levels between two groups of both non-smokin…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimers Disease is a neurodegenerative disease resulting in loss of brain function and memory, caused by the build-up of Amyloid-beta (Abeta) protein plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.…
CSEF · 2015
Toxicology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the effects of microwave radiation on the seed germination and growth of a bean plant. Methods/Materials Forty-two bean seeds were placed into…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Colorectal cancer arises from genetic aberrancies classified as driver mutations, which actively promote disease progression, and passenger mutations that provide no evident selective growth…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Mitochondria are the "energy factories" of the cell. Their main function is ATP production, and they are normally thumb-shaped with lamellar cristae. Mitochondrial morphology regulates apopt…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Chronic inflammation contributes to the pathogenesis of seven of the ten leading causes of mortality in the U.S. However, current anti-inflammatory drugs are oftentimes ineffective and/or cy…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The complex hormonal mechanisms of the autonomic nervous system provide the physiological conditions necessary to cope with a sudden crisis or emergency. Chronically stressful conditions cau…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the effects of an inflammation response on the synthesis of transcription factor CREB in MAPT gene regulation and hyper-phosphorylation of t…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Transcriptional promoters play an important role in bacterial gene regulation. Many promoters have a conserved DNA sequences called the -35 element and the -10 element. This study was to int…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Cardiovascular disease is the #1 cause of death in the world, causing over 17.5 million deaths annually. Numerous cardiovascular diseases are preceded by atherosclerosis, a condition caused…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purposed of this experiment was to see if students performance on copying tasks improved when they were given a break (two minutes for every five minutes). For my experiment I gave 27 th…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In this mobile age, smartphones are considered the latest evolution of mobile technologies. Although the mobility of smartphones helps people satisfy basic needs, it also causes problems ass…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The loss of cell to cell adhesion is one of the significant features of cancer. Proteins found in cell junctions, or groups of proteins which helps cells bind to each other, are downregulate…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening genetic disease that causes breathing and digestion problems in those who inherit it. The most common type of CF is caused by the deletion of a phe…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Stem cells offer the unique potential to differentiate into many different cell types in the body during early life and growth including heart cells. This experiment tested the culture condi…
CSEF · 2015
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to detect if prominent alcohol and drug use caused a change in cellular enzyme activity and oxidative stress in fish hippocampus tissue.…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Technology enthusiasts claim that the digital age is coming and no one can stop it. Schools and businesses across the world are switching to use electronic tablets instead of paper. Unfortun…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
In tumorous growth, cell migration becomes uncontrollable, resulting in metastasis, a process in which cancer cells spread to other regions of the body. Migration involves the making and bre…