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 · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Cancer is one of the most important problems for public health. This project tries to explore a new way to reduce its danger: VANGUARD is a multidisciplinary platform for the generation of u…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) causes the most cancer related deaths worldwide, and accounts for more deaths than the next three leading cancers combined (Key Statistics, 2017). At any s…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this project is to test the effect of natural compounds extracted from seaweed and grains, in decreasing lung cancer cells viability. Lewis Lung Carcinoma cells were cultured…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This study focused on a targeted cancer treatment through the use of Polybia-MP1 (MP1), a peptide found in the venom of Polybia paulista. MP1 selectively attaches to phosphatidylserine (PS)…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of my experiment is to see what conditions Planarians regenerate best under since their genes are being used to try to find ways to regenerate human organs. My hypothesis was tha…
CSEF · 2018
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals To determine which types of microplastic (polypropylene granules, foam, and microplastic made from plastic bag) affects plant growth the most, and also to determine which ty…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
High cytoplasmic calcium (Ca2+) concentrations are toxic to cells. To control Ca2+ concentrations, eukaryotic cells have complex mechanisms for sequestering Ca2+ in the endoplasmic reticulum…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
For diabetes sufferers, a simple wound can lead to serious diabetic ulcers which may result in amputation. Most commercial dressings can only address the basic needs for diabetes and usually…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Cellular senescence, a permanent proliferative arrest of the cell cycle, is closely associated with aging. Clearing senescent cells may reduce vulnerability to disease and extend lifespan in…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if and how caffeine affects Daphnia's heart rate. Methods/Materials Pipette, Daphnia Magna Culture, Caffeine, Petri Dish, Tripod and Camera, and Gr…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The focus of the study was to examine possible effects of genetics and external factors on teenagers’ tendency to choose one sport over another. Trainability of athletes, familial influence,…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My question is to find out how much fertilizer that runs off into a body of water is harmful. My hypothesis is that the more concentrated the fertilizer dilution series, the…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
The aggregation of misfolded alpha-synuclein protein is a key feature of Parkinson's Disease which afflicts over 53 million globally. There is no cure and the current treatment, Levodopa, ha…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Individuals with autism experience heightened sensitivity to their environment, resulting in neutral stimuli being perceived as amplified and threatening. The sensory meltdown is the painful…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to analyze the effect that Imidacloprid has on brine shrimp hatching rate and survival. Methods/Materials Brine shrimp eggs and Imidacloprid w…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Medical bracelets can save lives, but often lack sufficient information for appropriate medical care. The question was: Will a dynamic QR code based medical bracelet allow participants to re…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a common fatal genetic disease. Mutations in the CFTR gene often lead to drastically reduced lifespans, which can be greatly increased after diagnosis. Because curren…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
The World Health Organization states that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Fourteen million people die annually from cardiovascular disease and stroke. Antipla…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a form of a cancer treatment that involves administering a photosensitizing drug and irradiating it with an external light source. Upon exposure, the photosensi…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Third Award
The unique properties of gold nanorod's (GNR's) biosensing capability were applied to produce a multiplex, cost and time-effective, biodiagnostic assay for the early detection of multiple di…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to compare three types of auto-suturing (4, 5, & 6-sutures per segment) and control of continuous hand sutured anastomoses. It was hypothesized that if thr…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Platelets, also known as thrombocytes, are one of the three blood cells of the human body that play a major role in the physiological process of hemostasis. Platelets, unlike erythrocytes, h…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Studies are predicting that by 2050, the microbes that reduce the effectiveness of antibiotics known as the antibiotic-resistant superbugs will kill 10 million more people per year, which is…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Various natural plant products have been thought to contain compounds that could possibly counteract the deadly effects of many diseases, like cancer. Using this knowledge, I hypothesized th…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Objective: Oxygen is essential for life and is an element with a double physiological profile, indispensable for life and for the environment; it can also become toxic, as unstable molecules…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Osteosarcomas prove to be as dangerous as any other cancer and even with multi model poly-chemotherapies, it is extremely difficult to only target the carcinogens without it harming the heal…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The human epidermis undergoes continuous homeostatic regeneration and mutations, these mutations disturb the balance of homeostatic regeneration of epidermis which leads to Skin Cancer. Tumo…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Previously, it was concluded that East Indian Sandalwood Oil (EISO) inhibits AGS Gastric Cancer cells at low concentrations. This led to the question: how? To study EISO’s mechanism of inhib…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Multiple myeloma is a B-cell malignancy characterized by the proliferation of plasma cells derived from B cells in the bone marrow. Several novel drugs and therapies have been explored as po…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Approximately nine out of ten patients will have some level of paralysis due to a stroke and need physical therapy to rehabilitate the paralyzed region of the body. Physical therapy often ca…