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ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic central nervous system degenerative disease associated with resting tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, and progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Allergies are an important health issue in our community. We want to develop a drug to lower the effects of allergies by characterizing the IgE receptor in a mast cell. The mast cell is an i…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE), which defines genetic equilibrium in a population, is fundamental for studies in population genetics. Deviations from HWE, or changes in allele frequency in…
ISEF · 2016
The search for clean, abundant, cost-effective compounds, have led to experiment with green vegetative material to produce electric energy. The hypothesis established that voltage data obtai…
ISEF · 2016
This project addresses the issue of increasing drug resistance of pathogenic bacteria in the post-antibiotic era through mathematical and computational analyses. The analyses were focused on…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Mutations in the human ACVR1 receptor protein have been proven to cause the degenerative disease Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP). To date, in vivo methods of small-molecule drug…
ISEF · 2016
The curious behavior of coupled oscillators has intrigued physicists for centuries. The first to discuss this phenomenon was physicist Christian Huygens, who discovered an odd synchronizatio…
ISEF · 2016
Disabled and old people usually suffer by not being able to move freely as they require as well as to attend to their daily routine work. Most of the crutches available in the market is fixe…
ISEF · 2016
Egypt faces a lot of issues that gravely influence its economy, industry, agriculture and the environment in general. For us, the most significant one is the energy crises, using alternative…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project was to determine if cellulose acetate extracted from cigarette filters could enhance the properties of plastic and reduce the amount of plastic used for the produ…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Kava has been used by Pacific Islanders for years. The purpose of this project was to determine which of the Kava metabolites activate THP-1 macrophages to produce pro/anti-inflammatory cyto…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The obligate self-pollination aspect in mature Lactuca sativa (lettuce) plants impedes the propagation of traits of commercial interest and makes crossbreeding difficult and tedious. The pur…
ISEF · 2016
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) provides the chemical energy needed in most biological processes from metabolic reactions to cellular mechanics. ATP consists of an adenine ring, a ribose sugar,…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Improper signaling of the nuclear factor-?B (NF-?B) pathway plays a critical role in many inflammatory disease states, including cancer, stroke, and viral infections. Although a majority of…
ISEF · 2016
The effects of non-coding RNAs on the regulation of gene expression are researched.In our project by using bioinformatics methods, we aimed to specify the importance of possible similarities…
ISEF · 2016
The rapid advancement of trading makes many fraud cases are encountered such as counterfeiting of paper money. Persons with visual impairment also undertake trading activities, either as a h…
ISEF · 2016
Electroencephalogram (EEG) machines are often used to diagnose and monitor seizures, brain abnormalities, and sleep disorders, as well as for biofeedback. Versatile personal EEG machines oft…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the effects of neuroinflammation and microglial activity on the progression of Alzheimer’s and to develop therapeutics with RNA-Interference…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Atherosclerosis, a form of cardiovascular disease, accounts for 17.3 million deaths/year(Mozaffarian,2014). Characterized by plaque formation in arteries, it leads to myocardial infarctions…
ISEF · 2016
Steerable needles allow minimally invasive yet precise surgical procedures by reducing the size of incisions and the disturbance of tissues during the operation. Bevel-tipped steerable needl…
ISEF · 2016
This project is important due to its nature of global impact since it presents an alternative do reduce contamination worldwide. The problem question in this study is, are the peelings of Mu…
ISEF · 2016
I had a desire to understand how muscles compensate following a surgery or injury. I competed at Trampoline and Tumbling Nationals months before I discovered I had cancer. A 13 cm x 10 cm x…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
I attempted to determine if any connection exists between personality as measured by the Big 5 test and music preferences. This was accomplished by test subjects completing the online Big 5…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Cellulose synthase (CESA) complexes, which are essential for cellulose biosynthesis, are bridged to cortical microtubules that enable them to reach the cell wall by the CESA interactive prot…
ISEF · 2016
Asthma is one of the most common and significant cause of illness and deaths around the globe affecting millions of people per annum. 15% of world’s total population i.e. about 300 million p…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most commonly seen neurodegenerative diseases in our society. Parkinson’s has no cure and it worsens over time, leading to severe impairments, a smalle…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
This study provides a low-cost and high-yield method for fabricating nanosized gas bubbles. By purging pure nitrogen gas into de-ionized (DI) water together with a sonication treatment, I su…
ISEF · 2016
We synthesized silica (SiO2) nanoparticles: we applied them onto glass surfaces in order to verify if nanoparticles give them some extraordinary properties. For the synthesis we followed the…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
The overall goal of this research is to characterize the functional consequences of mutations in FGFR3 that have been identified in cancer. Fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFR) belong t…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
With the WHO predicting antibiotic-resistant infections to claim 300 million lives by 2050-a number that exceeds the rates of cancer and heart disease combined-, our society is facing a daun…