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ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Studying the effects of seizures in the brain is necessary to better understand and treat epilepsy. With the use of an electroencephalogram (EEG), researchers and health professionals can re…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is the most prominent form of Lung Cancer and kills at least 800,000 people each year. Early diagnosis of NSCLC yields higher survival rates among patients…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Amyloids comprise of the amino acids that are the primary cause of Alzheimer's; an antibody that binds with high affinity to the amyloid has great potential of being an improved drug candida…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
It has been postulated that anxiety and personality type A are the source of a large number of diseases, both psychic and organic. The conductance of the skin, known as the galvanic response…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
If climate change persists, ocean warming and acidification will have catastrophic effects on coral reefs and marine biodiversity in the next 100 years. However, marine and coral biodiversit…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This study had two goals: to identify frequencies within the gamma band, 30 to 100 Hz, that contribute the most electrical power during seizure periods, and to explore pre-seizure patterns a…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are segments of proteins that lack a defined tertiary structure, giving them the ability to interconvert…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
To overcome ethical and technical concerns, humanized mouse models are often used to study the human immune system. Specifically, immunodeficient mice are engrafted with human fetal tissue a…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the California skipjack tuna fishery is sustainable or not. This particular study holds great importance in that no California fisheries ha…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Epilepsy is a chronic brain disorder affecting 1% of the population worldwide. Its primary symptoms, seizures, occur without warning and can often be dangerous. Epilepsy is diagnosed with th…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
"Controlling the sugar concentration in our daily drinks has become essential especially for diabetes. It’s also an important thing to farmers in order to know exactly how much sugar their f…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
The goal of this research was to improve cancer diagnostics, specifically copy number detection methods. Accurately determining the abundance of oncogenes and tumor suppressors is necessary…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal genetic neurogenerative disorder caused by expansion of CAG trinucleotide repeats in the huntingtin (HTT) gene greater than 35 repeats. The expanded CAG…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Artificial neural networks, models of which were experimentally calibrated by the author, train homeostatic variable sets to examine the relationship between variations in incubation conditi…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
People with Type 1 Diabetes must compute an insulin dose for every meal. Dosing errors can cause both acute and chronic complications. The current dosing method (i.e., "carb counting") consi…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease are chronic, debilitating neurodegenerative disorders, and the ability to accurately diagnose and monitor these diseases is critical for treatment…
ISEF · 2016
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
What I hope to achieve in this experiment is to determine the percentage of students who have anxiety disorders, if females have it more commonly than males, or vise versa, and what age grou…
ISEF · 2016
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The researcher believes that if humans are exposed to human attractant pheromones, they will rate people as more attractive and believe each person is more successful. The experiment include…
ISEF · 2015
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Speech is produced by a set of neurological and motor processes, known as speech motor programming. When regions of the brain controlling speech are damaged, speakers are not able to properl…
ISEF · 2015
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Often times, there are instances where making certain decisions are harder than others. One may think that a person who has trouble deciding in one area should also be indecisive across a br…
ISEF · 2015
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The study investigated the thermogenic properties of green coffee bean extract on a nonparametric group, as well as placebo expectancy in regards to weight loss. Subjects were measure in fou…
ISEF · 2015
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The purpose of the project is to test how localized vibrations affect the physiological signals of children. If vibrations are proven successful in calming children down, then vibration ther…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The purpose of this experiment was to characterize a newly discovered ultrastable silver nanoparticle. Silver is known to be susceptible to oxidation while metals such as gold and platinum a…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Upon encountering antigens in the germinal centers of peripheral lymphoid organs such as the spleen or lymph nodes, mature B-lymphocytes undergo class switch recombination (CSR). CSR alters…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease that causes ganglion cell death in the retina, leading to vision loss. To study the effects of glaucoma, the DBA/2J mouse has proven to be a precise m…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
My research develops a tool to enable the first ever genome-wide analysis of genetic variants, specifically single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), in transcription factor binding sites. The…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder resulting from the buildup of neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. Those with AD exhibit worsening memory and language funct…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
In this study, I conducted laboratory tests that produced induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) that could be used as an alternative to the use of embryonic stem cells. Using human buccal che…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Lymphopenia, a condition in which the number of lymphocytes falls below normal levels, makes patients more susceptible to infection and disease, and can be caused by genetic predisposition o…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
As the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women worldwide, breast cancer metastasis remains refractory to current therapy. Residing in the Polycomb protein group and altering the chro…