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.
AJAS · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Introduction: Inflammation and infection are important in the etiopathogenesis of pulmonary diseases. Umbilical cords are usually discarded postdelivery. Mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) deriv…
AJAS · 2018
Autism is a developmental disorder that impairs the ability to communicate and interact. Children with Autism are more hyperactive and sleep deprived (autism-related behaviors) than a neurot…
AJAS · 2018
Energy efficient light emitting diodes (LEDs) have supplanted traditional incandescent bulbs as the default lighting component of a modern fixture. Unlike incandescent sources, LEDs emit lig…
AJAS · 2018
Energy and Transport (inferred)
Tests were run using a small model house with corresponding removable model roofs. This research project has had two phases thus far; Phase 1 focusing the difference in energy consumption fo…
AJAS · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The objectives of this study were to determine the general response of vegetation to drought conditions; to test whether moisture deficiency was the limiting factor for vegetation growth in…
AJAS · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
The ability of microRNAs to regulate oncogenes through RNA interference makes them a promising target in cancer therapy. Specifically, miR-200c has gained attention in triple negative breast…
AJAS · 2018
Engineering (inferred)
The purpose of this project was to see if using a frontward pulling propellor gives the multirotor a higher velocity than the multirotor altering its pitch or yaw to achieve movement in a gi…
AJAS · 2018
Plant Sciences (inferred)
Commercially available compost is not always accessible and cannot always be trusted to be environmentally safe. The most basic problem with commercially available compost is that one doesn’…
AJAS · 2018
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Responses to oil spills include; leaving spills undisturbed, removing with skimmers/ sorbents, breaking-up spills with dispersants or introducing biological agents to enhance oil degradation…
AJAS · 2018
Myxobolus cerebralis is a myxosporean parasite diminishing healthy salmonid populations throughout the United States via an infection known as “whirling disease”. Currently there is no treat…
AJAS · 2018
The normal development of an organism is tightly regulated and highly orchestrated by microRNAs (miRNA), short pieces of regulatory RNA. The timing of the expression of these miRNAs determin…
AJAS · 2018
The origins of life on earth is one of the most important questions under investigation One theory, panspermia, suggests that the earliest life on the planet may have been extraterrestrial i…
AJAS · 2018
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
Previous studies have shown body dissatisfaction and perfectionism to be elevated in individuals diagnosed with clinically significant eating disorders. However, past research has consistent…
AJAS · 2018
The prevalence and disability associated with discogenic low back pain (LBP) are significant and there is a general lack of widely accepted conservative treatments for the condition. Our stu…
AJAS · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The purpose of our experiment was to use the information and core samples we had to impact the ongoing discussion of what caused the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) that happened aro…
AJAS · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Hyperthyroidism, a dangerous disease caused by the over activity of the Thyroid gland, severely weakens the body’s metabolism and leads to stroke, heart failure, and other life-threatening d…
AJAS · 2018
The symbiotic relationship between copepods belonging to the family Porcellidiidae and their hermit crab hosts has not been studied in the eastern Pacific. To better understand the ecology o…
AJAS · 2018
Plant Sciences (inferred)
As urbanization often proceeds uncontrolled and unsupervised, organisms in nearby waterways are especially vulnerable to the effects of sewage, waste, and chemical contamination. Recent repo…
AJAS · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Inhibitors of multixenobiotic resistance (MXR), a mechanism that protects aquatic organisms from pollutants, pose a danger to biological and ecological health. Inhibitors target individual p…
AJAS · 2018
Today, G-quadruplexes are an active research area because of their potential as an anticancer method. Using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), the aim of this research was to prove…
AJAS · 2018
A lingering question in the field of laser science is how does light carrying spin and orbital angular momentum interact with quasi particles in solid states systems? In magnetic crystals th…
AJAS · 2018
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a deadly disease. Half of all sufferers die within 2 years of diagnosis, and 14 out of 15 will die within 10 years. In patients, ALS interferes with co…
AJAS · 2018
Energy and Transport (inferred)
The current method of wastewater treatment generates 8 million tons of sludge every year. Sludge requires up to 60% of the energy use in wastewater treatment plants to treat before it can be…
AJAS · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Human activities have led to an unprecedented loss of freshwater species, thereby impairing ecosystem function. Novel analyses are necessary to create conservation strategies. For example, G…
AJAS · 2018
When a classical, ideal thermodynamic system is driven from equilibrium, it tends towards maximal entropy, described by the Boltzmann distribution. However, the probability distribution of a…
AJAS · 2018
Adjustments in temperature are a prominent environmental stimulus to many organisms and affect the life processes of almost all organisms. Environmental temperatures that diverge from optima…
AJAS · 2018
Chemistry (inferred)
The overarching goal of this project is to synthesize effective, multicomponent anti-cancer compounds by coupling derivatives of boron and natural products. Benzoboroxoles, (cyclic boronic a…
AJAS · 2018
Microbiology (inferred)
The wax moth larvae, Galleria mellonella, is an emerging method for in vivo testing turned to by many, as it is becoming less and less acceptable to perform experiments on animals with verte…
AJAS · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (inferred)
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…
AJAS · 2018
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Traumatic brain injury is attributed to the violent movement the head and brain incur during a collision. By reducing the speed at which the head moves through changing the energy from the h…