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ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems
According on extrapolation of the data in 2022, there are around 190,000 cases of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in the United States each year and the main reason of ARDS is hyp…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Approximately 40% of all agricultural production is lost due to pests. HR4 (HOMOLOG OF RPW8 4) confers resistance to Myzus persicae, more commonly known as the green peach aphid (GPA), which…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and its precursor Gamma Butyrolactone (GBL) are easily accessible, Class C drugs, commonly used in drug-facilitated sexual assault cases. Existing technologies fo…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Microplastics are plastic particles that are less than 5mm long that come from the breakdown of larger plastics and the use of synthetic polymers in manufacturing, and have been shown to hav…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
With the lowest 5-year survival rate (9%) among all types of cancer, pancreatic cancer is considered one of the most lethal diseases in the world. Current conventional treatments often fail…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) is a viral disease that has caused a major global pandemic. There are many developing treatments for SARS-CoV2 including vaccines…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Embryonic development is a universal process that is elucidated amongst healthcare professionals and researchers in the field of obstetrics. During particular stages of development, families…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With thousands of Mendelian-inherited diseases, new bioinformatics technology such as WES has been implemented to identify causal genes and variants within patients. Even with modern technol…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Despite the immense promise of cancer immunotherapies, there are significant challenges to overcoming treatment resistance and improving efficacy. Strategies such as the combination immunoth…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Nearly seven million individuals in the U.S. have Essential Tremor (ET), making it one of the most common neurological disorders. Current ET research aligns it with a Purkinje cell disorder…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Almost 10 million cancer-related deaths occur every year, with costs totaling $208.9 billion. Chemotherapy, the currently accepted treatment for cancer, causes significant economic losses, a…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Immunotherapy activates the body’s immune response against cancers by inhibiting interactions between cancer cells and T-cells (cells that fight against foreign substances or in this case, c…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Bacterial biofilms are complex and structured surface-attached bacterial communities held by a matrix of extracellular polymeric substances. Biofilms pose a significant threat to healthcare…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
High-mass stars (stars with masses above 8 times the mass of the Sun) generate great amounts of energy, more than several thousand times the energy generated by the Sun. At present, the mech…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Oil spills have become a major problem in waterways around the world, more specifically, the Gulf of Mexico. With increasing risks and effects, the necessity of oil containment has become a…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
The duplication of genetic information (DNA replication) is central to life. Numerous control mechanisms ensure the exact course of the process during each cell division. Disturbances of DNA…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Nano titanium dioxide is a widely used photocatalyst, but there are still two problems with it. On the one hand, nano titanium dioxide can only absorb ultraviolet light, so the utilization r…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
The novel use of stem cells (SCs), specifically induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), in regenerative medicine to treat degenerative, autoimmune, and genetic disorders has shown great prom…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Mus musculus (mice) are often used to model the human immune system and to develop healthcare treatments because mouse immunology accurately recapitulates many aspects of the human immune sy…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease in which the cartilage within the joint gradually wears away, leading to pain, stiffness, and swelling of the knee. About 10% of men…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Fishing is one of the top outdoor activities in America. In South Dakota, over 170,000 fishing licenses were sold in 2020. With the thousands and thousands of fish people catch, that means t…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Due to asthma, I was prescribed prednisone a lot when I was young. After my 7th grade physical, my growth showed a decrease from the 50th percentile to the 20th percentile. My doctor suggest…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
West Nile virus (WNV) is the leading mosquito-borne disease in the United States but is not currently preventable through vaccination or treatable by any medications. It has caused over 2,50…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
The Covhelp mobile app was developed in the “MIT App Inventor” software development program. This application provides users with access to the necessary information about COVID – 19, as wel…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Many water sources contain emerging contaminants (contaminants whose water presence has only recently been confirmed) that lead to debilitating health and environmental effects, yet current…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Large biomedical datasets routinely consist of more data points than can be displayed faithfully on a computer monitor. Computer screens are incapable of representing high-volume datasets wi…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Aquaculture wastewater with high nitrite concentration due to low denitrification activity in winter is lethal to hydrobionts such as fish and shrimp. Therefore, bioremediation using bacteri…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Milled rice is deficient in almost all major classes of nutrients except carbohydrates. Poor nutrition of rice has resulted in severe malnutrition problems in developing countries where the…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering First Award
Plastic waste poses threats to both the environment and human health. PET is the world’s most common plastic. Compared to traditional methods to treat PET waste, biodegradation is environmen…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Oral diseases such as tooth decay are expected to affect roughly 3.5 billion individuals worldwide. In most developing countries, access to primary oral health treatments is limited due to a…