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ISEF · 2015
Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy (STS) images are powerful tools that allow scientists to quantify the local atomic properties of surfaces, supporting the characterization and development of…
ISEF · 2015
Bacteriophages have potent abilities in eliminating deadly bacterial infections. Bacteriophage K, a member of the lytic bacteriophage family Myoviridae, is a virus that uses bacteria to repr…
ISEF · 2015
Cotton is one of the most valued crops grown in the U.S. with a projected 16 million bales for the 2014/2015 period. This project focuses on plant stand accuracy during the early growing sta…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The treatment of many injuries and diseases requires engineered tissues. However, there is a severe lack of specific cells for tissue engineering. Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are a promising…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Minerva is a cutting-edge telescope array focused on the detection of exoplanets in the habitable zone of their stars. The first objective in the fledgling stages of this array is to perform…
ISEF · 2015
Chemotherapeutics are commonly used as a treatment for malignant tumors, however usage of these medications is limited because of the accompanying systemic side effects, and the dose limit.…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Mosquitoes are vectors for many dangerous diseases such as Malaria, Dengue, Yellow Fever, West Nile etc. Mosquito transmitted diseases occur mostly in tropical, developing countries and crea…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
This science investigation is aimed at developing smart phone algorithms for automated detection of seizures and falls. The product of this investigation is the Seizario app, which utilizes…
ISEF · 2015
With increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant microbes, cationic polymers are promising as an alternative antimicrobial system since their mechanism of action aids in preventing develop…
ISEF · 2015
Scientists around the world for years have been struggling with the challenge of creating holograms or realistic 3D images. I am suggesting an alternative way to create realistic 3D images w…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that is triggered by the ingestion of gluten, a protein present in wheat, rye, oat, barley and its derivatives. If not correctly treated, the disease…
ISEF · 2015
A capacitive sensing system was developed that operates on a swept frequency, unlike the static frequencies of conventional sensing methods. The initial prototype used an Arduino Uno as the…
ISEF · 2015
Purpose of the project / experiment: The main purpose of the project was to synthesis and then growth of TlGaTe2 crystals. Development of a high capacitance mini capacitor based on nanorods…
ISEF · 2015
Objective: To develop and test an effective filters for wastewater treatment plants that will remove mircoplastics from different clothing fabrics. Hypotheses: When treating water containing…
ISEF · 2015
There are many machine learning methods developed for individual applications, and each has its strengths and weaknesses. However, none of these can be used for all databases and deliver sat…
ISEF · 2015
The thermocycler is an apparatus widely used in molecular biology laboratories for the amplification of DNA using the PCR technique (Polymerase Chain Reaction). The main applications of the…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
A novel antigen-presenting cell (APC)-targeted immunomodulatory nanoparticle (NP) was developed as a vaccination platform, with potential uses such as cancer therapeutics. The nanoparticle e…
ISEF · 2015
I developed software that implements semi-supervised learning to dramatically improve accuracy when stylometrically attributing an unidentified tweet to the correct author from a set of know…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
This project is to develop a novel targeted next generation sequencing (NGS) assay for early screening of Colorectal Cancer (CRC) using methylated DNA Biomarkers. CRC is the second leading c…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The objective of this project was to develop and test a novel biomarker algorithm for a screening test for the early detection of liver cancer. Liver cancer has risen to the forefront of let…
ISEF · 2015
With the improvements of cancer treatment selectivity and real-time monitoring in mind, the goal of this project was to develop an anticancerous prodrug that could concurrently track and inh…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering First Award
In this innovative research, a novel oncolytic virus, AM105, is designed to target and selectively kill cancer cells. Current methods of cancer treatment including radiation and chemotherapy…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Radiation and nuclear terrorism are growing threats for humanity in today’s world. One reason for this is the lack of a shielding material that is effective against both neutron and gamma ra…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Optical imaging plays an integral role in pre-operative tumor detection. In molecular imaging with fluorescent contrast agents, non-flat surfaces scatter excitation light across the region o…
ISEF · 2015
Transverse tilt-wing design has currently not been experimented within the nano class of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and has applications in defense, wildlife conservation, crop agriculture, se…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
In epidemiology, Contact Tracing, the process of identifying and isolating contacts of infected individuals through manual interviewing, is the primary technique used to control the spread o…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Learning is crucial to the adaptability of a species and is a behavior influenced by both innate and experiential factors. The learning of key behaviors like language is marked by critical p…
ISEF · 2015
TaqMan® assays are highly sensitive and specific in the detection of infectious agents. In this research TaqMan® probes and primers were developed for the detection of several new genetic va…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Phycoerythrin is a light harvesting phycobilin protein extracted from the red seaweed species Chondrus crispus. Phycoerythrin has the potential to be used as the sensitizer in dye sensitized…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Energy, transportation, and chemical sectors are major contributors to the increase in the greenhouse gas CO2 concentration in our atmosphere. Increasing greenhouse gases causes global warmi…