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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…
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…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Antimicrobial Peptides are evolutively conserved components of the innate immune response. Their chemical and physical characteristics correlate with their microbicide activities which are e…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of this study was to examine the inhibitory effects of piperine, a compound found in black pepper, on B16F10 mouse melanoma cell growth, and to see, when UV is added to B16F10 ce…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Hypericine is used traditionally as a wound healing agent; therefore it’s a potential promoter for reprogramming induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs) which possesses several problems due t…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Iron homeostasis is a vital biological process closely regulated by several signaling systems. One of the most important systems is HJV/BMP6; it regulates the release or sequestration of iro…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This project is designed to test the extent of people's short-term memory, and reveal how age and gender cause people's minds to function differently. The hypothesis was if the age of female…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Illiteracy, elder abandonment, elder abuse, poor scientific awareness, misunderstanding of what science really is... These are just some of the problems our societies face nowadays and makes…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Searching mechanisms to improve the immune system against cancer can be an alternative for treatments used nowadays. In that way, my project studies the relation of lipid mediators (such as…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Melanoma stands as a growing problem in the world, and kills thousands of people every year. In an attempt to find a method of limiting the rapid proliferation and unchecked growth exhibited…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Sorting Nexin 27 (SNX27) belongs to a super family of sortin nexins which mediate protein-protein interaction in intracellular trafficking, membrane remodeling, organelle motility, tight jun…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In this investigation, the high frequency hearing sensitivity of 200 subjects were tested, replicating the author’s study performed in 2008 with 178 subjects. The results of this longitudina…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Introduction: Throughout the tropical Pacific, box jellyfish pose a medically significant sting danger to beach-goers, tourists, & swimmers. Cnidae or stinging cells, including the nematocys…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
We decided to investigate about the eating habits in young children between 5 and 11 nowadays as well as why they have acquired them. The research was done among children who live in Rosario…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Throughout history, the horrors of combat have left their mark on soldiers around the world through more than just external battle wounds. As years have passed, the number of men and women d…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Eyewitness testimony plays a major role in jury verdicts. This experiment is designed to determine if—and how—gender and age affect the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. We hypothesized that…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The effect of bilingualism on the multitasking ability of adolescents was investigated by comparing the performance of twelve monolingual and twelve bilingual subjects on a nineteen-question…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
With cell phone use becoming ubiquitous in the academic lives of teenagers, high school students use their cell phones for social connection in a multitasking way while studying and doing ho…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
It is necessary to better understand human haptics because of the explosion of multi-sensory interfaces and growing need for devices that utilize weight perception to decide force required f…