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ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Vascular injury initiates a cascade of inflammatory responses that disrupt tissue repair and elevate the risk of restenosis and thrombosis. Resolvin D1 (RvD1), an endogenous lipid mediator d…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
Aluminum materials are widely used in automobile bodies. However, their corrosion protection is insufficient, necessitating surface treatment techniques to enhance their long-term durability…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry
Human cells experience various biophysical forces in vivo that significantly influence biological processes and cellular phenotype. One such force, cellular deformation, occurs during trans…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment consists of the waste of peanut shells being used to retain water and preserve cellulose fibers. The experiment aims to see if peanut shells can help retain the water in the…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
Millions of people die each year due to infectious diseases stemming from sewage contamination and unsanitary conditions. Previous research developed magnetic iron oxide particles capable of…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry
Human activity and fossil fuel consumption continue to increase the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) content to extraordinary levels, compounding the greenhouse-gas effect and driving global…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
My project explores a novel design of cube-like drones that can build three-dimensional structures by connecting mid-flight. Rather than focusing on just the interlocking mechanism like the…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
As neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s affect over 70 million individuals, it is crucial to investigate modifiable lifestyle factors such as diet and circadian rhythm patterns to…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Bilinguals acquire and process language differently than their monolingual counterparts. High definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
The issue of mental health misdiagnosis, affecting more than a third of patients with severe psychiatric disorders (39.16%) according to the National Institute of Health, calls for urgent ac…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria threaten a future where even minor infections may become untreatable. This growing concern has renewed interest in an old alternative—phage therapy. Phage thera…
ISEF · 2025
Embedded Systems
From tracking fetal heartbeats in ultrasound to pinpointing voices in noisy crowds, acoustic beamforming plays a vital role in healthcare, consumer technology, and public safety. Beamforming…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry
Camelina sativa is an oilseed crop for biofuel production. Genetic modifications have improved traits like oil content and stress resistance, with the DsRed fluorescence marker used to ident…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Helicases are enzymes that unwind double-stranded DNA during replication and repair. Human DNA helicase B (HELB) is critical for proper genome maintenance and recovery from replication stres…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Recent observations have revealed unexpected galaxy populations at cosmic noon and “ultra-large-scale structures” in the local universe that challenge standard mass assembly models. To inves…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Nicotine addiction is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports approximately 23.6 million Americans have a nicotine use disorder.…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Diabetes Mellitus is a growing global epidemic, affecting over 500 million people worldwide. The condition is characterized by insulin resistance- failure of body’s cells to respond effectiv…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Autoimmune diseases affect millions worldwide, yet many are difficult to diagnose due to biological complexity and variability across patients. I developed a computational pipeline to addres…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
The formation of planetary orbits and star systems remains one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy. Exocomets, with their unique geological and molecular compositions, may hold the key to…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics
Due to the grave danger that epidemics hold to our health and way of life, there has always been a dire need for models that predict the onset and severity of an epidemic. This is emphasized…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
Distracted driving represents an escalating public safety crisis, with its role in motor vehicle collisions and resulting fatalities steadily increasing. Despite advances in distracted drivi…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Galactic formation is not fully understood, and supernovae are essential in current models; however, despite significant advances in understanding, there remains limited precision and effici…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
The agricultural industry is striving to increase the world's food supply systems to meet future needs, and hydroponics can be a crucial tool in this endeavor. This study aimed to enhance th…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
In the 21st century, microplastics have become an increasingly common anthropogenic environmental pollutant. While the effects of microplastic contamination on many large species have been e…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The current youth has been experiencing a decline in cognitive functioning, and many have attributed this to a Dopamine (DA) rewiring stemming from “easy” DA induction from online habits. Ho…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Dysregulated dopamine in the mesolimbic system is linked to disorders like schizophrenia, depression, and addiction. Low phasic dopamine release correlates with reduced drug reward sensitivi…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
My science fair project is to see how pea plants would grow to different liquids on the pH scale. In this world there are many countries with the lack of clean water or just having the abili…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry
Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2RR) has emerged as a foremost strategy for commercial-scale production of carbon-based derivatives via proton-coupled electron transfers, yet overcoming the…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Power lines are critical components of modern infrastructure. Traditional methods of wireless drone-based maintenance are both expensive and vulnerable to electromagnetic interference emitte…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The Drone Dynamometer introduces a cost-effective real-time drone dynamometer aiming to provide reliable flight performance data while significantly reducing risks and expenses, since curren…