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ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Peripheral nervous system (PNS) demyelinating diseases, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, are characterized by nerve impulse conduction anomalies. These anomalies can be caused by demyelinati…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Colitis is a disease characterized by inflammation and epithelium injury in the colon. Colitis tissue consists of a variety of cells interacting with each other and gut microorganisms. These…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death, has no simple, non-invasive early detection tests. This project aims to create a multiplex sputum-based RNA probe through the targeting of the…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science First Award
One billion people are blind or visually impaired due to a lack of access to eye care. The World Health Organization has established early detection as a key factor in the prevention and tre…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Since the rise of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, face masks have been widely accredited with decreasing the transmission of aerosol and respiratory droplets and slowing the spread of the virus. Th…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Antibiotics are a great way to treat infections caused by bacteria. However, bacteria are evolving to become more resistant to antibiotics. Because of this, new treatments must be found. One…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose for this experiment was to prove or disprove whether social distancing via classrooms at school is effective with HVAC units in mind. We hypothesized that if petri dishes are pla…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Annually, about 15,000 people in the US are diagnosed with sarcoma. Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) and osteosarcoma (OS) are the most common sarcomas in children and adolescent young adults. Surviva…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Diabetes is an international health crisis. There is an extreme need for adequate testing methods. This led us to ask the question: Can we use manganese (IV) oxide nanosheets to create an in…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by loss of dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra, negatively affecting motor control and causing symptoms…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Investigations indicate that diabetic patients with myocardial infarctions (MI) have an increased risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) post-MI. In diabetic MI, blood hemoglobin (Hb) rises, whic…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of this project was to further understand the impact that over-the-head listening devices contribute towards noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). A primary cause of noise-induced h…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the extent in which ketone supplements reduce postprandial glucose levels in human test subjects. The researcher hypothesized that if the caffe…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
This research study addresses the issue of vaccine hesitancy in adolescents. The research questions of this study include: To what extent does an adolescent’s experience with COVID-19 influe…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer related mortality worldwide. Angiogenesis refers to the growth of new blood vessels from preexisting ca…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with no current effective therapies. Synaptojanin 1 (synj1) is a novel target as lowering its expression can be beneficial for AD. Ni…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The leading cause of potentially survivable deaths in war is hemorrhage. This is frequently due to shortcomings of ready-to-use donated human whole blood with their short shelf lives, storag…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Induced Pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are currently recognized as one of the most potential sources for cell based therapy. iPSCs are highly sensitive to different types of stresses, indica…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Limb loss poses an important challenge to society, as humans have limited regenerative potential. The murine digit is used to study mammalian regeneration because it can regenerate after dis…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
One main challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic is the lack of safety measures to reduce the risk of viral spread during gatherings. This study evaluated oral and nasal droplet spread in an…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This project helped determine which type of toxic chemicals found in vaping products would have the greatest impact on growth/development of yeast cells in both liquid and aerosol cultures.…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Autophagy is a process through which a cell recycles its components to generate energy. Studies show autophagy is involved in diabetic retinopathy, a diabetes complication where retinal cell…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The use of advanced analytics, when applied properly, can offer a greater understanding of its topic of study. For example, advanced analytics in healthcare data can be used to analyze patie…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, (SARS-CoV-2) emerged, resulting in a global pandemic. Temperature monitoring is often conducted before entry into school/work to check for fe…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
We can find a better practice for reducing the rate of hospitalization from OTC acetaminophen consumption. First, we researched over-the-counter acetaminophen and its current overdose rate.…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
According to the CDC, approximately 3500 infants die annually in the United States from sleep-related infant deaths, such as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). My project aims to reduce th…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders, affecting over 10 million people worldwide. Medications for Parkinson’s are usually ineffective because patien…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this project was to discover whether or not seaweed is able to protect skin cells from UV radiation. Thousands of people each day are diagnosed with skin cancer. The current s…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
The small ubiquitin related modifier, SUMO, is a protein that is conjugated to other proteins through an enzymatic cascade of E1, E2, and E3 enzymes. SUMO can also be removed from proteins t…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of my experiment is to find out which fabric used for masks is most useful in protecting against pathogens. The transmission of pathogens across a fabric was evaluated by measuri…