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ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
A predominant cause of mass bee deaths is the parasite varroa destructor, a mite harming bee populations and making them more vulnerable to virus infections which the parasite may contract a…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry
Infectious diseases caused by bacteria from biological contaminants pose a great burden in terms of diagnosis and treatment, and millions of people worldwide die from bacterial infections. T…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases around the globe. It has been shown that more than 50% of cancer cases have an overexpression of the MYC oncogene. The main challenge in these cancers…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science Third Award
SARS-CoV-1, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 are highly contagious and lethal coronaviruses (CoVs). Although different forms of anti-SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV vaccines have been developed, none of them…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
422 million adults worldwide have diabetes, and 48% of all juvenile deaths are due to diabetes or diabetes-inflicted diseases; diabetes in low-income families has risen rapidly---up to 21% w…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Diabetes is a chronic condition that devastates approximately 10% of the global population, and yet technology aimed at its management is invasive, costly, and solely monitors blood-glucose…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences
Crickets are a global source of nutrition for pets and humans alike. This will only increase as traditional agriculture faces increased challenges due to the advent of global warming. Howeve…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Bilinguals process and acquire language differently than their monolingual counterparts and have been shown to do better on tasks that involve cognitive control. High-definition transcranial…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Colorectal cancer (CRC) has multiple subtypes, and it may take patients weeks to find out which subtype they have. The goal of this research is to use gene expression data to determine poten…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software
Natural Language Processing systems such as GloVe are necessary for computer interpretations of human language. Previous research has used these systems to predict genomes or stocks. After t…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The Four-Corners region of the Desert Southwest is where much of the Diné (Navajo) population lives remotely, in traditional Hoghans. These Hoghans neither have running water nor electricity…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
RNA has numerous roles in cells and its information is encoded by its sequence, secondary structure and chemical modifications. The least explored RNA modifications are noncanonical 5' RNA c…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Purpose The emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere increases the greenhouse effect and warms the earth. In addition to reducing CO2 emissions, it is possible to actively remove the g…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
Gravitational lenses are rare but significant phenomena in astronomy, where a foreground galaxy magnifies and distorts the light of a distant galaxy. Each lens enables the study of dark matt…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Hepatocyte growth factor receptor (HGFR or c-MET) is a receptor tyrosine kinase that has been found to be linked to cancer, with malignant mutations causing tumor growth, angiogenesis, and m…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
In plants, roots typically do not perform photosynthesis because of the division of labor with the leaves and stems. However, it has been reported that Taeniophyllum aphyllum, a plant specie…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy First Award
The longstanding question of how ultra-short-period (USP) planets form and survive so close to their host stars signifies a gap in our understanding of planetary formation. With only 127 USP…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry
Biofilms are extracellular matrixes that secure microorganisms embedded within them through the EPS or extracellular polymeric substance which provides rigidity and tolerance to a wide degre…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Increasing pharmaceutical options assists diversified and individualized healthcare plans (GLIFWC Commission, 1993). Study compares sustainability of traditionally prepared Nuphar advena rhi…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
We decided to do this research because we wanted to see how we could use the measured period and an apparent magnitude of variable Cepheid stars to measure their distance from Earth and thus…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
"Disused tires: an alternative to produce biogas" is to give a beneficial use to used tires and cow excrement, two major polluters, therefore decrease the accumulation of them and thus reduc…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Visual impairment, more severely known as blindness, has been a persistent problem in the world of biomedical sciences in which an effective, modern, and universal solution has yet to be int…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry
The process of making honey is simple. Bees use a variety of flowers to produce honey. When looking at areas around the US, no one area has the same type of plants that make honey. Two years…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This year, I studied if microplastics were present in cattle that graze off of farm fields that use plastic mulch. I have been studying microplastics for the past three years where I have st…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology Third Award
Singapore’s rapidly aging society increases the population’s vulnerability to M. abscessus infections. This is an alarming trend as M. abscessus is notoriously difficult to treat due to extr…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences
Light pollution or artificial light at night (ALAN) can disrupt insect circadian rhythms and development, since photoperiod is a dominant cue for timing seasonal events in animal life cycles…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
In our quest of whether there is life outside of our solar system, the focus has been on finding planets known as Super-Earths with Earth-like qualities suitable for life, but large enough f…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In the last year, five student-athletes participating in high school basketball tore their ACLs. This project aimed to determine if a correlation exists between the Q-angle of an athlete’s k…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
While driving, mere seconds are the difference between life and death. These seconds are your reaction time. Teenage drivers are too relaxed at the wheel. They believe they are driving safel…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Hi-C, a chromosome conformation capture-based method, allows researchers to interrogate chromatin interactions between any two genomic loci in a bulk of cells and study the spatial arrangeme…