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ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Standard approaches for cancer treatment involves surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Although these approaches have resulted in prolongation of the survival window, it is also accompanied…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death for American men. Sadly, Native Hawaiian men have the highest mortality rate from the disease. Mamaki, an endemic Hawaiian plant and a vi…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
With respect to evaluating biopsies for cancer diagnosis, a pressing yet often sidelined issue is that of anatomical pathology errors. Due to the image-based nature of biopsy examinations an…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
Current drone swarm technology is oftentimes not fully autonomous nor connected by a reliable network, and therefore cannot efficiently map large natural disaster environments to identify se…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Along the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (MTB), hypoxia-induced dormancy is a process involving the oxygen-depleted environment encountered inside the lung granuloma, where bacil…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Radiation-induced lung disease is a potential challenge for thoracic cancer survivors, who received radiotherapy. Hence, research to identify drugs that have selective effects on normal and…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
This research is about decomposing artificial materials with oyster mushrooms. The author chose this topic as there is a huge amount of plastic on earth that could be broken down. The subjec…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Through increasing usage of toxic substances in anthropogenic activities, contamination in the natural environment has become a major problem. To combat this increasing threat, native Hawaii…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of human death, accounting for 17.8 million deaths in the past year. CVD causes dysfunction in blood proteins and cells. These dysfunctions…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Anti-cancer peptides (ACPs), a class of small peptide molecules, have gained increasing attention in cancer research due to their ability to target and kill cancer cells selectively, sparing…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a major clinical complication with an incidence of 50% among critical care patients and an observed in-hospital mortality of 62%. The early identification of pat…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The early division of nuclei in a Drosophila embryo is composed of eight nuclear divisions, or cycles, producing a total of 256 nuclei by the eighth cycle. The nuclei start in the center of…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The research testifies whether superworms can biodegrade Polyurethane(PU) using the gut bacteria Pseudomonas. Also, the study examines how environmental factors of humidity of the surroundin…
ISEF · 2023
Chemistry
The chemicals in man-made cleaning products and the plastics that encase them pollute and harm the environment. This investigation’s goal was to test the effectiveness of a natural plant-bas…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems
When natural disasters hit, they routinely destroy cellular and WiFi networks, eliminating these indispensable tools for emergency responders. Ideally, first responders could arrive, connect…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Artificial intelligence is becoming a more widely utilized technology in the healthcare industry to improve predictability and consistency (Science Daily). However, this powerful technology…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to develop an AI-based application for accurate diagnosis of skin diseases and diseases that manifest signs and symptoms on the skin, leveraging the power of…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
This project aims to address the issues associated with the existing aircraft fuel tank service kit, including its weight, susceptibility to corrosion, and heavy labor intensity. To improve…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
Conventional unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) commonly suffer from under actuation, meaning they only have four control degrees of freedom (DOF) and lack two control channels in the horizonta…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Education is a sociocultural process aimed at the full realization of the human being as a person and the improvement of all the conditions that benefit the development and transformation of…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
Electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft could enable the implementation of large-scale Urban Air Mobility projects, thereby mitigating problems that currently face the transpo…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
During many industrial fires, the chemicals released from the incineration of materials inside the building and ones commonly used by firefighters to extinguish the fire are often picked up…
ISEF · 2023
Chemistry
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a widely used plastic polymer presents significant environmental challenges due to its extensive production and disposal. In this study, we investigated the…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The ongoing problem of medical malpractice, which accounts for nearly 251,000 deaths per year, highlights the need for a more sophisticated solution to the issue of human error. To address t…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems
Badminton training is popular in China, but trainees often struggle with the tedious task of collecting and arranging scattered shuttlecocks during sessions. To overcome this, there is a nee…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems
With the conception of the mobility aid cane, or more commonly known as a ‘white cane’, being over 100 years old with little improvement to its primary function while still holding the same…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science Third Award
The Kirsten rat sarcoma viral (KRAS) gene is the most frequently mutated oncogene, responsible for many types of highly fatal cancers — notably, pancreatic, colorectal, and non-small cell lu…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology
The human microbiome makes up 90% of the cells in our body and that makes us just 10% human. The microbiome has long been associated with several human diseases. Our microbiome in homeostasi…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The purpose of the investigation is to save lives. The project emerges from the concerns regarding the dangerous conditions of bridges in Puerto Rico and how these have already taken a toll…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
In-cell click-formed proteolysis targeting chimera molecules (CLIPTACs) were developed to allow both the inhibition and ubiquitination (degradation) of mutated proteins causing various disea…