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ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
The experiment I conducted is about the fat content of various snack foods. The purpose of my experiment was to gain knowledge about the types of fats that snacks contain and to help educate…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Aragonite is known to give plastics stronger mechanical property and heat resisting property than calcite when it is used for fillers. If aragonite crystals larger than 1.0 mm are available,…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
The purpose of this experiment is to see whether it is possible to extract water from the juice of watermelon. The first part of this experiment consisted of obtaining juice from a watermelo…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
The DNA glycosylase methyl-CpG-binding domain protein (MBD4) is commonly found to be mutated in cancers, autoimmune disorders, and neurological disorders. MBD4, a base-excision repair enzyme…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Since mid-eighties of the past century, a huge number of microwave-assisted organic/organometallic/inorganic transformations have been published with a growing number in every year. It is we…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Antioxidants are vital in maintaining good health. They terminate chain reactions that produce free radicals. As a result, antioxidants help combat against diseases caused by oxidative stres…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
The use of e-cigarettes has skyrocketed in the past few years. With this, people have been exposed to the many dangers that come with using them. In this project, we tested for metal content…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Denaturing proteins is a process vital to many fields of biology such as pharmaceuticals, biosensing, and synthetic biology. In order to denature proteins, however, the proteins must be expo…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Imagine a magnet and the items that are attracted to it. It is likely that what you imagined was something solid, maybe a magnet on a refrigerator or picking up cars in a junkyard. In this e…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Purpose: Chordomas are rare spinal neoplasms uniquely characterized by their high expression of the transcription factor brachyury. Recently, defects in endogenous antigen presentation, a we…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry Fourth Award
The algae have many abilities as a renewable lipid source of producing biofuel. Nevertheless, there is an inherent economic problem to make the algae use beneficial as the algae's fuel costs…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Delivering pharmaceuticals at the correct dosage to the correct site often proves an obstacle to a drug’s effectiveness. Cyclodextrin polymers can localize administration and lengthen the ti…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
The title of this project is The Influence of Vegetated Coverage on Surface Runoff Losses of the Insecticide, Bifenthrin. Bifenthrin is a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide that is most common…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Activated charcoal is a chemical that has increased in popularity. It is used in toothpaste to whiten teeth, in face masks to remove ‘toxins’ from the skin and is even taken as a food supple…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
The project we developed starts from an element that has strongly characterized the five hundred and twenty years of the artwork: its fragility. The painting is one the most vulnerable among…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Purpose: The leading causes of death globally stems from cardiovascular diseases such as stroke and heart failure, which both involve atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis refers to the buildup o…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Mitochondrial dysfunction is a common characteristic of many diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and cancer. Normal mitochondrial function is regulated by post-translational mod…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Carcinogenic acrylamide naturally forms in common foods and drinks containing asparagines and reducing sugars when processed at temperatures above 120°C. Recent worldwide concern for consume…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
The innovative proposal of this research focused on the evaluation of eggshell as an alternative source for obtaining calcium carbonate (CaCO3), in order to be used in the paper sheet manufa…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry Fourth Award
Nowadays, electrochemical CO2 reduction that involves the utilization of CO2 to convert into hydrocarbon products has been regarded as a promising way to address the increasing crisis of gre…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Our work is aimed at the synthesis of new lanthanide labels based on derivatives of DTPA (diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid) for NMR screening. The introduction of a spin label into a prote…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
The purpose of this investigation was building a reactor that combined carbon dioxide and water molecules into artificially synthesized carbohydrates and identifying those carbohydrates that…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Convenient and inexpensive colorimetric chemical sensors (like pH paper), which change color when exposed to chemicals with different concentrations, are attractive due to low cost, ease of…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Advances in the mobility of bone marrow transplants have benefited many different types of people from all aspects of the socioeconomic ladder. This project demonstrates the process of cryop…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry Fourth Award
Non-biodegradable plastic is prevalent as it’s integrated into every aspect of our lives. The careless disposal of plastic is one of the biggest problems that humanity faces today. It has a…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Industrial dyes are one of the most dangerous effluents that could contaminate the environment and causes a water pollution. Many industries produces dyes, such as textiles, leather, dyes, p…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Acyclovir is an antiviral drug used in the treatment of Herpes Labialis, a difficult to treat viral infection affecting over 140 million people worldwide. Traditionally, administration of Ac…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry Third Award
First time, soybean is investigated for supercapacitor application, because of its importance towards Arkansas’s economy. In this project, phosphorous and nitrogen co-doped carbon (PNDC) was…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Metformin is the most widely prescribed drug worldwide for treating diabetes and it is becoming a promising drug for the treatment of a multitude of conditions including metabolic syndrome,…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry Third Award
Smoking, the leading cause of oral cancer in India, kills over 5 people every hour. As high mortality is due to late diagnosis, early detection is vital. Free radical induced lipid peroxidat…