Browse 195 real Biomedical and Health Sciences projects entered in 2017, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
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…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Common cancer treatments may seem almost as hazardous as cancer itself. Most people who undergo radiation and/or chemotherapy report physical side effects, including shortness of breath, unc…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
The world remains unprepared to contain the Zika virus and other similar mosquito borne viral diseases which can spontaneously become an epidemic in days. In a survey published by the Wall S…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The project idea is about a belt be wear around the abdomen to measures the fluid increased in abdomen and pelvic cavity , in fast and easy way , without repeat the abdominal ultrasound exam…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals Colloidal silver and silver nanoparticles have been used for decades to treat various medical conditions and are now being extensively added to a variety of textiles and hom…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Across the world, fifty million people are affected by epilepsy or seizures. A major challenge in treating seizures is assessing the efficacy of anti-convulsants. Previous studies have alrea…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Free-space broadband frequency modulated near infrared (NIR) photon transmission mode technique has been used in this paper as an optical bio-sensor method to extract optical properties of d…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Leukotrichia; premature discolouration of hair is a problem amongst youth worldwide, causing depression & reducing the amount of stress controlling hormones. It is caused by wane of melanin.…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals To determine whether sunscreen actually blocks out all the photons from entering the leaves. Methods/Materials Used 16 arugula plants in total with 4 in each group. For 3 ou…