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 · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This investigation was based on inducing a major hallmark of Type II Diabetes (T2D), insulin resistance (IR), in Drosophila melanogaster (DM) through high Sucrose diets (HSD) and characteriz…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The goal of the research is to develop “live” food products with high biological value, which will be used in the diet therapy of people diagnosed with metabolic syndromes. In order to creat…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Mutation detection contributes great significance in the early diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of cancer. Therefore, the emergence of a highly efficient assay for detecting mutation is g…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
According to the Centers for Disease Control, hospital acquired infections (HAIs) kill over 100,000 people every year in the United States. Studies have shown that lab coats worn by medical…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that can regulate circadian gene expression. This study investigates the relationship of miRNA and microbiome levels to diurnal variations in hum…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals If an area is covered with wood ash, will plant growth be negatively affected Methods/Materials In two burn barrels, burn samples of orange tree and oak tree wood. Next day…
AJAS · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Abstract More than 68.8% of adults are considered to be overweight or obese, with more than 9% of Americans being diabetic (and the majority of these suffering from T2D). Metabolic diseases,…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to test whether increasing ocean acidification, which is caused by rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, affects the weight of shell…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to see if honeybees are being exposed to neonicotinoids, and if I can completely eliminate or control the exposure of neonicotinoids to my col…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Third Award
BACKGROUND: Malaria is a disease that mainly affects the poor, and is caused by a parasite (plasmodium) that cannot reproduce outside of humans. Most malaria patients are asymptomatic until…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Parkinson’s disease (PD) occurs when dopaminergic neurons start to degenerate. It isn’t clear what happens to initiate PD, but it’s known that a mitochondrial respiratory chain dysfunction a…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a locomotor disease characterized by toxic aggregation of the protein a-syn in neurons. In recent research, mice with a PD-causing mutation failed to exhibit dise…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Modern sewage treatments do not remove majority of pharmaceuticals from the filtrate, releasing 30 to 60% of a contaminant in the outflow. Arid regions such as Pakistan are…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find the rate of photosynthesis in aquatic plants during oil spills. I believe oil will not let the sunlight pass through and reduce the rate of photosyn…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology First Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to investigate the effects of recommended treatments of oxalic acid or formic acid for Varroa mite on honeybee memory. This project is the first…
AJAS · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
To determine the translational potential of novel small molecules in combination with the DNA Topoisomerase I (TOP1) poison, camptothecin (CPT), the crystal violet method was employed to qua…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Twelve percent of women develop invasive breast cancer (National Cancer Institute, 2012). Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women in the United States, killing ov…
AJAS · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Antigenic similarity between tumor cells and embryonic cells has been recognized for many years. However, attempts to utilize these shared antigens as targets for immunotherapy treatments in…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the most common form of autoimmune arthritis, is a progressive inflammatory disease with unclear causes. Many people with arthritis feel worsening symptoms when we…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Lacrosse is one of the fastest growing sports in North America, and the physical nature of the sport puts players at risk of sustaining head injuries, including concussions. Concussions are…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Evaluation of the effect of parabens on sea urchin fertility through sperm exposure and in vitro fertilization. Methods/Materials Used potassium chloride solution to remove…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) results from the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic ß cells, leading patients to require lifelong insulin therapy. Transplantation of isolated pancreatic isl…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Prostate Cancer (PCa) is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy in North American men. PCa displays a broad range of clinical behavior from relatively benign to an aggressive metastatic dise…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Metastatic cancers are associated with a poor prognosis, as current treatments often prove ineffective at targeting every cancer cell and are rather damaging to normal cells. The research re…
AJAS · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Tumors occur when cells proliferate because of problems within a cell’s apoptotic processes. Colorectal adenocarcinoma, which accounts for 95% of all colon cancers, demonstrates an aberrant…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Zika virus infection can cause fever, rash, conjunctivitis, and joint pain, which typically last up to 1 to 2 weeks, but can also lead to severe diseases such as Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Inflammation plays crucial roles in tumorigenesis. Cancer cells evade immune surveillance by recruiting myeloid-derived suppressor cells and T-regulatory cells, releasing inflammatory mediat…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Background: Donation after circulatory determination of death (DCD) could improve donor heart availability, which currently limits transplantation. However, reluctance to this approach arise…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) is the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide, and cirrhosis underlies 80-90% of HCC. Cirrhosis is initiated and advanced due to the activation of hepa…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
The goal of this study was to compare hospitalization outcomes in women with Turner Syndrome (TS), the condition of missing the second X chromosome, and non-TS women. It was hypothesized tha…