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ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
According to the World Health Organization, approximately 40 million people worldwide are infected with HIV-1. While there is no cure for HIV-1, Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART)…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
In today's world, the mass production of carbon dioxide, created by modern machines is resulting in climate change and increased ocean acidity. The purpose of this Direct Methanol Fuel Cell…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry Second Award
Multidrug resistance (MDR) drastically curbs treatment success in cancers and other systemic diseases. A membrane pump overexpressed in tumors, Pgp, renders cancer cells ‘resistant’ to our w…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Fire is one of the accidents that can cause death and property damage to leave a deep impression on the victim. It can be avoided if precaution steps are taken at an early stage. The selecti…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Nowadays lead poisoning is the most common type of heavy metal poisoning. Children are even more at risk as they absorb a greater proportion of lead at a faster rate compared to adults. Chil…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Bioluminescent strains of Pseudomonas syringae pathovar (pv.) tomato was developed for a high-throughput resistance assay. There has been an effort to generate a pathogen carrying a luminesc…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Asymmetric synthesis is an organic chemistry field directed to the production of chiral molecules with high optical purity which constitute a large part of the drugs and agrochemicals becaus…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
The floatation and rapid propagation of algal cells in eutrophic water are the key factors of cyanobacterial blooms. The buoyancy regulation of cyanobacteria is particularly important, becau…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Slaughtering of huge amounts of farmed chicken worldwide results in huge amounts of feathers. Unless they are properly dispensed and/or adequately utilized, accumulations of the chicken feat…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Diesel fuel is one of the leading contributors to environmental pollution and can be very costly for individual consumers. Biodiesel, which is fuel made from plant and animal oil rather than…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
The purpose of this project is to test out what each softener could do to flames and what changes could be done from the burning. From this we can also determine the safety of each detergent…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
ZnO, a semiconductor metal oxide, exhibits a property known as piezoelectricity, which is a product of its crystalline lattice anisotropy and tetrahedral molecular unit cell. In this researc…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
The monovalent cation channel Transient Potential Melastatin 4 (TRPM4) depolarizes cells upon activation and is capable of initiating diverse intracellular signaling pathways. TRPM4 mutants…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry First Award
We heavily depend on petroleum for energy production, petroleum-based polymer synthesis and the manufacturing of multiple important chemicals. More than 95% of the energy in the United State…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Plastics have been a vital asset for humanity but their harmful effects have not been resolved. This project is about a greener solution. Since the petroleum based plastics cannot bio-degrad…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a very deadly form of brain cancer. The effects of hybrid compounds of heterocyclic rhodanine and arylidene (boronic acid) were tested on GBM cancer cells. T…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Cheese whey is a by-product of cheese manufacture. A daily production of 10.000 liters of whey causes a load of organic pollutants similar to a city of 5.000 inhabitants. The diversified use…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Invertebrates, unlike their counterparts, vertebrates, have no adaptive immunity for protection and hence can only rely on biochemical based innate protection to defend themselves against pr…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
P27kip1 (p27) is a tumor suppressor protein that is often deregulated in aggressive cancers. Recent evidence from the Sheaff lab suggests p27 deregulation provides a growth advantage by allo…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
General theme of the project is exploration of indenyl rhodium complexes. The relevance of this study is that organometallic complexes are widely used in organic synthesis as catalysts. For…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
The species Psidium guajava, commonly known as Cuban White Guava, contains various phytoconstituents with have the potential for use in the pharmaceutical field. One of these phytoconstituen…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
The great amount of pollution generated by the chicken feathers from butcheries, as well as family growths of Jonote (Heliocarpus appendiculatus) for the production of fig tree paper, favore…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Supercooling occurs when a liquid obtains a temperature lower than its freezing point without exhibiting a phase change from liquid to its solid state. The properties of liquids exhibiting t…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Methods were developed for the analysis of stimulant drugs, opiates, synthetic opiates, PCP, and benzodiazepines in wastewater samples using liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass sp…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of Melia azedarach fruits on removing heavy metals from industrial wastewater .The study methodology contained four steps. First, Melia azedarac…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
The purpose of this experiment was to simulate conditions of primordial Earth to demonstrate how life could have been created from the gases (nitrogen, carbon dioxide, ammonia, methane) pres…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Fourth Award
Lord Kelvin’s Thunderstorm, also known as Lord Kelvin’s Water Dropper, is a type of electrostatic generator that utilizes natural charge imbalances in falling streams of water to generate el…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Ferrofluids mainly consist of stable colloidal suspensions of nanoscale magnetite (Fe3O4) particles. (Magnetite particles can be manipulated through magnets in order to change the solution’s…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
This project is aimed to test the feasibility of Manihot esculenta as a raw material for the production of biodegradable plastic. Manihot esculenta commonly known as bitter cassava, tapioca,…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Larrea tridentata and Juniperus osteosperma are two plants used by Native Americans for a variety of medicinal purposes. In this study, the leaves of Larrea tridentata and the "berries" (con…