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ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
According to 2014 World Health Organization figures, more than 600 million adults were obese and approximately 2.8 million people die each year as a result of obesity, presenting health and…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this project was to see if natural substances can be used to prevent mutation. With the recent discovery of aspirin as a cancer preventative, many have reverted to daily use o…
ISEF · 2015
In resource-limited environments, most premature births take place far from traditional hospitals. The shortage of proper neonatal care facilities has led to high mortality rates of infants…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
The aim of this project is to develop an instantaneous and cost-effective method to quantify the total amount of bacteria in a water sample using nanotechnology. Current quantification metho…
ISEF · 2015
Clean energy alternatives are becoming increasingly important as greenhouse gas emissions are growing and fossil fuels are being depleted. Bioenergy sources can provide renewable transport f…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project was to create a novel artificial intelligence system to diagnose genetic disease based solely on genetic data. The first half of the project involved creating an…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
CD47 is a ubiquitously expressed cell surface receptor for thrombospondin-1 and the counter receptor for signal-regulatory protein alpha- (SIRPa). High expression of CD47 on several types of…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
Oil majors have broadened their horizon for deep-sea exploration with efforts to preserve global stability. Subsea catastrophes emerge at unforeseen times, thus an effective, temporary solut…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Ras proteins are a family of small GTPases activated by numerous upstream signaling molecules. Mutations in RAS genes (KRAS, NRAS, HRAS) can cause the corresponding Ras protein to be locked…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The many current tests for dyslexia and other disabilities are generally expensive, time-consuming, and tedious. This research was done as a continuation of an attempt to see if video could…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Spatial memory is the part of memory responsible for recording information about one's environment and its spatial orientation. Spatial memory is crucial function of brain that a subject can…
ISEF · 2015
The focus of this research is to computationally elucidate the motion in a recombinant vaccine to detect vital alpha carbon motions. To correct for PCA’s insufficiencies, a hierarchical anal…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The highly invasive species of algae, Gracilaria salicornia, has harmful detriments to Hawaii's vulnerable reef life. As a red algae, Gracilaria salicornia has the potential have agar extrac…
ISEF · 2015
Millions of pounds of residual rice hulls are produced annually, but this agricultural waste is typically burned, releasing greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Previous studies have succe…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Peak acceleration has been used in many studies to explore Football helmet safety. In this experiment, a linear drop test from 152 cm (6 feet) was performed in the NOCSAE (National Operating…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Asthma, a chronic inflammatory disorder of the lung, is associated with airway remodeling and hyper-responsiveness. T cells play a key role in regulating inflammatory responses in asthma. Th…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Leptomeningeal dissemination (LMD) is the metastatic spread of tumor cells from the brain to spinal chord. LMD is a characteristic of and the most fatal step in the pediatric brain tumor med…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of investigating the biomarker of bladder cancer is to see if there's mutation in the biomarkers' regions since the same biomarker region of angiogenin from ALS was found to be m…
ISEF · 2015
Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodites seed stem cells of their germlines to reproduce. The proliferation of these stem cells is controlled in a large part by the FBF genes (fbf-1 and fbf-2).…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
In several instances, industrialization has led to increased contamination of agricultural fields with cytotoxic level of heavy metals. In seeded plants, the ZIP (ZRT- IRT-like Protein) fami…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a severe complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in which donor T cells attack host tissues. Immunosuppressant…
ISEF · 2015
The tragic deaths of 19 Arizona firefighters in 2013 reminds us that firefighters are regularly exposed to extreme temperatures and hazardous conditions. Current protective apparel, however,…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Autophagy is implicated in the pathogenesis of Huntington’s disease (HD), a fatal neurodegenerative disorder, and is unproductive in HD cells. This research focused on understanding cellular…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects millions of young adults worldwide. The disease is caused by the immune system mistakenly attacking the central nervous system (CNS), which consists of the br…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Type-2 diabetes results when insulin producing beta-cells cannot compensate for rising insulin resistance. Diabetic pathologies may ensue including retinopathies. Current treatments show adv…
ISEF · 2015
With growing dependence of technology in the world, the importance of finding an effective source of renewable energy to replace harmful fossil fuels has been a mission for solar researchers…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
One significant problem with fuel cells is that they are costly to construct because of the expensive platinum catalyst. Palladium has similar chemical properties to platinum and is approxim…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical substances used to control pests in agricultural fields cause serious problems in public health, pesticides have been associated with severe allergies, cancer, neurological damage,…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Mikania micrantha is one of the worst invasive alien species in the world. This exotic noxious weed is a perennial creeping climber grows vigorously in East Asia and US (especially Florida),…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this research project was to determine if academic performance in primary grades was an indicator of academic performance in high school. It was hypothesized that students’ ac…