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ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Annually, adverse drug reactions cause 1.5 million hospitalizations. In practice, medicine is often prescribed by trial and error to determine the best drug and dosage. Genotypes influence t…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Colorectal (CRC) is a common malignancy, with an annual estimated incidence of 1.8 million newly diagnosed cases and 880,000 deaths globally. Currently, there is a low response rate to 5-Flu…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Pickering Emulsions(PE), which received growing endorsement in the recent catalytic chemistry field due to its high surface activity, provide new possibilities to improve the efficiency of T…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
H2 is important as a promising green energy source. Conventional H2 production methods include the steam reforming of fossil resources, water electrolysis, biomass fermentation, and photocat…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Plankton are the world’s largest oxygen producers and first level of all marine food chains, making quantification a measurement for Earth’s health. Currently, manual microscopic plankton an…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Many places lack clean water and the chemicals needed to treat water are not easily accessible either. Moringa plants tend to grow near the equator where most countries lack water. Moringa p…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Third Award
The decomposition of plant-litter, aided by the metabolic activity of plant-litter microbial communities, is a vital process in nutrient cycling. Taxa such as Curtobacterium are involved in…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
The Main goal of the work was to create a working prototype of the platform on which you can move in any direction in the horizontal plane. The principle of operation of this platform and a…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Plectra Gold is a herbal honey formulation that acts as an effective remedy for common respiratory problems such as flu, cough and sore throat. The main component of Plectra Gold is raw Tual…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems
Nuclear energy is a source that can pose significant risks and hazards, therefore, mitigating the risks of radiation is just as important as the research on its application. This project pre…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project investigates regions of the U.S. and Canada affected by the Polar Vortex and impacts of “stuck” or persistent extreme weather patterns such as: longer rainstorms, longer heat wa…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
Corrosion is a challenging issue faced by many industries, causing substantial economic losses due to the degradation of materials. According to the National Association of Corrosion Enginee…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
LIDARs are imaging systems that obtain the model of the determined area in a virtual environment by directing the rays around the axes. LIDARs have various applications including mapping, mi…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this project was to design and build a device that can take data readings of areas at high risk of forest fires and notify residents if it is too dangerous for health to remai…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
A) PURPOSE The desire for energy is causing major land degradation, pollutions, increase in ozone layer depletion, causing diseases in mankind and increasing the rate of depletion of Mother…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Postpartum haemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide. 1, 22,500 women bleed to death after childbirth every year. Blood loss is estimated by grossly inaccurate, visual…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Following my last year’s project, I continue to be concerned by the environmental impact of polymeric waste – how it scars the land and poisons water – and ways to improve its recyclability…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
Studying human nasal colonization among 250 healthy participants in Shanghai, China, we found the nasal colonization rate of S. aureus and S. epidermidis was 19% and 97.1% respectively. S. e…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Purpose: Covid-19, a viral global pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus caused 2.72 million deaths (as of 03-22-21) worldwide and more than 543,000 deaths in the United States. The purpose…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are subpopulations of cancerous cells that are theorized to be the cause of tumor initiation and relapse. CSCs are especially dangerous because they are resistant to…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, are photosynthetic aquatic organisms that produce toxins. They can grow excessively to form large-scale blooms under favorable environmental conditions. T…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Second Award
The knee joint strength of 43 turkeys, 44 chickens, and 37 guinea fowl was studied by recording various musculoskeletal measurements of the leg, as well as the force required to luxate the k…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
In 2020, more than 250,000 Vietnam households were inundated, and over 70% of the population is exposed to risks from flood-related hazards. While Southeast Asia has experienced an unprecede…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The National Cancer Institute reported 9.5 million cancer-related deaths in 2018. A challenge in improving treatment is resistance in genetically unstable cells. The purpose of this study is…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is the world’s leading cause of cancer deaths. A significant portion of these patients develop recurrence despite curative resection. Prognostic modeling o…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The amount of land burned every year in Washington has increased about ten times over the last half century making the need for improved detection and identification of trends linked to wild…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
When exploring the potential for life in the Universe, a star system’s habitability depends on both its internal structure, which sets up the building blocks for life, and its external envir…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The 2019 coronavirus has proven to have a devastating global effect. With symptoms ranging from those of the common cold to pneumonia, it is evident that scientists must decipher the point a…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the cause of the global pandemic known as coronavirus disease-2019 or COVID-19 for short. SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotonic disease,…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Rapid Intensification (RI), a 30+ kt increase in a storm’s 1-minute maximum sustained winds, is a potentially catastrophic event occurring within tropical cyclones. The leading current RI mo…