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ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Oil spills are major threats to the ocean and marine life, and they release massive amounts of oil. Oil dispersants are chemicals that break down oil into smaller droplets to make it easier…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer cells evade apoptosis, a cellular suicide process that plays a pivotal role in cancer, thus enabling excessive cell proliferation. Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancers, wh…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Neurogenesis is highly crucial to the success of the nervous system, and perturbation of this process has the potential to elicit disease states. A better understanding has implications for…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study examines carbon sequestration by Nannochloropsis algae when cultivated in solutions with different pH levels. If Nannochloropsis is grown in a solution with a pH between 7.5 and 8…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Plants need water to grow, and yet many areas that grow our crops are suffering from drought. Increasing the ability of soil to hold more moisture for a longer time could benefit drought str…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Formulating an HIV drug as an oral thin film (OTF) can overcome many drawbacks of the current WHO-approved pediatric HIV antiretroviral therapy regimen used in sub-Saharan Africa. The curren…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
This experiment’s purpose was to suggest an inexpensive way to eliminate synthetic dye from textile wastewater in South Asia by utilizing orange peel powder. Cheaper alternatives are needed…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Imagine aquatic life like fish, crawdads, and tadpoles dead on the side of the creek bed. What we dispose of into our waterways matters. Filling the water with surfactants from products like…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
A majority of hippotherapy patients struggle with balance, coordination, and self-regulation, causing participating horses to present stress/discomfort indicating behaviors (SDIB) during the…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The main problem is that we want to solve the problem of endlessness, which is spreading wildly in the world including Azerbaijan. So we used the effect of saffron on the human hormonal syst…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by impaired memory and accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aß) plaque in the brain. Type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for devel…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
I investigated different substrates for the larvae (BSFL) of the black soldier fly (BSF). These larvae have great potential as an environmentally, economically sustainable protein source for…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In this study, spider silk protein employment in topical wound dressings helps to shorten the wound healing period. In normal cases, it takes 12 days to heal the earthworm wound as a robust…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide causing 10 million deaths in 2020. Many patients do not have access to quality treatment and diagnosis which is unfortunate since the su…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a paradigm shift in the reliance on video-conferencing technology, However, video-conferencing technology has a hidden effect on body and self-esteem issues…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Chinese privet and nandina are aggressive invasive species that have spread throughout Hot Springs National Park. Herbicide is not environmentally friendly or able to be used in parts of the…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Beekeepers across North America lose their beehives at alarming rates to factors like pesticides. The direct exposure to neonicotinoids, fungicides, and miticides that Apis mellifera, honey…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the effects of cymatics on an artificial auditorial-impaired-hearing individuals’ ability to learn music. The experimenter hypothesized that Cy…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The aim of this research study is to evaluate the enamel erosion due to the different pH levels in chlorines typically used in swimming pools (sodium hypochlorite, lithium hypochlorite, and…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
This experiment tested whether or not dissolving polystyrene with d-limonene had an effect on the pH of seawater. It was hypothesized that if more polystyrene is dissolved in the water, then…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The Effects of E-Cigarettes on Drosophila melanogaster. Our project is about the negative effects of E-vapor. This is an important topic because people think that vaping is safe. According t…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
To better understand the manner of phytoplankton decline due to climate change, this study explored changes in phytoplankton community composition during the spring phytoplankton bloom in th…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This research applies to the role of Chlorella sp. as a second-generation biofuel which is a possible alternative to fossil fuels. Its biodiversity allows the algae to be sustainable as well…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Endothelial vascular leakage is responsible for the pathogenesis of diverse acute and chronic inflammatory diseases, such as COVID-19 and influenza, heart disease and arteriosclerosis. In pa…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology Fourth Award
In 2019, Microcystis aeruginosa, a cyanobacterium found in eutrophic environments, bloomed along the Mississippi Gulf Coast due to a sudden deluge of freshwater from the opening of the Bonne…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
An experiment was conducted to study the impact of dyes on water quality. Untreated dye wastewater causes hypoxia, and a lower living standard for populations relying on the body of water. T…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
This experiment was conducted to see the effects Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Fields would have on semen collection rates in cattle. There were three pulsing sessions completed over the course of…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
During the pandemic, the surge in production and usage of single-use plastics known as personal protective equipment (PPE) include gloves, which are commonly manufactured with polyvinyl chlo…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Transfer of data and information through computational systems is oftentimes unsecure. Confidential information and private knowledge from a source to a destination runs the risk of being ob…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment will determine if different nitrogen:phosphorus:potassium ratios limit the growth of algae in wetland water. We hypothesized that if we test the effects of varying NPK ratios…