ISEF · 2018
Micro Farms
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project is an engineering/botany project. Everything is hand-constructed in the biome. There are integrated systems to regulate water chemistry for optimum fish and plant health. The sy…
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ISEF · 2018
Microfluidic Chips for Detection of Lung, Breast and Prostate Cancer
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Cancer is one of the most common diseases that has difficulties in diagnosis and treatment field. The number of cancer patients and their mortality rates are increasing day by day. Metastasi…
ISEF · 2018
Microneedle-Assisted Delivery of Model Therapeutics in Plant Tissue
Plant Sciences
This project focuses on a potential treatment delivery method for the bacterial disease, Huanglongbing, or citrus greening, that has devastated Florida’s 9-billion-dollar citrus industry. HL…
ISEF · 2018
Microplastics in the Terrestrial Food Chain via Earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris)
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics are small plastic particles that are generally less than 5 mm in diameter and can come from cosmetics, clothing, weathered and degraded plastic, and more. There has been growin…
ISEF · 2018
Microplastics, Macro Problem: A Novel Technique to Remove Microplastics from Water Using a Modified Electrostatic Filter
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Microplastics are an increasingly problematic aspect of plastic pollution with an estimated 83% presence in tap water worldwide. Microplastics are under 5 mm in size and circulate oceans, ha…
ISEF · 2018
Microwave Resonant Cavity Thruster
Engineering Mechanics
The main part of my engine is the metal element shaped like a truncated cone. This part resembles a closed metal can and is named a resonant cavity. Inside that cavity I use an antenna to ex…
ISEF · 2018
Migraine Mind
Biomedical Engineering
Migraine is one of the most common ills among men and women but are more prevalent among women. Migraine is a sever half headache that lasts for several hours or days, it begins with strong…
ISEF · 2018
Mimosa pudica as Indicator for Comparative Adverse Effects of Topical Anesthetics
Plant Sciences
This project sought to determine if the similarities in transduction of mammalian and plant action potentials through ion channels could allow use of a unique plant indicator, the Mimosa pud…
ISEF · 2018
Mind Your Language: A Host Produced AI-2 Mimic Mediated Communication to Inhibit Bacterial Pathogenesis
Microbiology
The plant kingdom is an implicit gold mine which continues to play an important role in the discovery of new treatment and preventive therapies. Ethnobotanical plants have been used for cent…
ISEF · 2018
Minimal Footprint Hypervisor
Systems Software Fourth Award
Virtualization is a technology widely adopted across IT industry. It is being used by a growing number of companies to enhance server security and enable scalability. The vast majority of vi…
ISEF · 2018
MiRNet: A Novel in silico Network-Based Approach to miRNA Drug Target Identification for Next Generation Drug Discovery
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Chronic disease is the leading cause of death in the world. Next generation therapeutics are needed to combat the growing global health crisis of chronic diseases, such as cancers and heart…
ISEF · 2018
Miswak Reduces the Toxic Effect of Phenytoin
Translational Medical Science
Phenytoin is a commonly used antiepileptic drug. Its effect on causing gingival overgrowth with a prevalence of 50%. This problem caries both hygiene and cosmetic impact on patients. The aim…
ISEF · 2018
Mitigation of Ti02 Stress and Characterization of a Brassinosteroid Insensitive-1 Gene in Aquatic Bioindicator Species Lemna minor
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) are an abundant heavy metal stressor frequently discharged as industrial effluent. There has been little research on the effect of TiO2 NPs on aquat…
ISEF · 2018
MJF Smart Cane
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Summary of the Project We found that in Palestine the percentage of blind people are 14.6% ,in the world there are about 45 million people and in the Educational institutions there is about…
ISEF · 2018
Modeling American Alligator Population Dynamics
Animal Sciences
The American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, was hunted extensively until a management program was started in 1967. This management program, which is still used today, consists of hun…
ISEF · 2018
Modeling and Integrating the Orbit of Near-Earth Asteroid 2003 QB90 (242211)
Physics and Astronomy
Near-Earth asteroids can pose serious dangers to life on Earth. The location of near-Earth asteroid 2003 QB90 (242211) was measured over a four week period (July 9, 2017-August 5, 2017) usin…
ISEF · 2018
Modeling of Phenomena in Multiple Stellar Systems
Physics and Astronomy
After a binary or triple stellar system is formed, its components follow elliptical trajectories. Due to interaction, their trajectories gradually change with characteristic time intervals r…
ISEF · 2018
Modeling of the Objects Drifting on the Sea Surface
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Due to increase in transport workload in the water area, cases when oily substances get into the sea have become more frequent. Since the problem of spills is actual these days and it is of…
ISEF · 2018
Modeling the Emergence of Epistatic Gene Combinations as a Phenotypic Function of Evolution
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Empirical evidence demonstrates that an organism’s phenotypes are often based on multiple interdependent genes, rather than a single gene. When the expression of a phenotype is predicated on…
ISEF · 2018
Molecular-Based Genotypic Selection for Anthocyanin in Lactuca sativa, Year Three
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
The overall goal is to identify a non-destructive real-time PCR-based method allowing for rapid genotypic selection in Lactuca sativa (lettuce) seedlings at an early stage of development. Th…
ISEF · 2018
Molecular Sensor Using Aptamers in Precision Ellipsometry
Chemistry Third Award
Biosensors are of quintessential importance in optimizing industrial production of biomolecules such as antibiotics. Optical biosensors have therefore received considerable attention due to…
ISEF · 2018
Monitoring Environmental Status of a Mesocosm Using an ESP32
Embedded Systems
Remote monitoring of the environmental status of a mesocosm would allow for immediate real-time data collection with customisation using a variety of sensors depending on the experiment or m…
ISEF · 2018
Monodromy Groups of Indecomposable Rational Functions
Mathematics
The most important geometric invariant of a degree-n complex rational function f(X) is its monodromy group, which is a set of permutations of n objects. This monodromy group determines sever…
ISEF · 2018
More than Skin Deep: Deciphering the Role of Bartonella henselae Infection in Melanoma Metastasis, (Phase Two)
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
When cancer spreads from one organ to another, it becomes significantly harder to treat. This process, known as metastasis, is involved in 90% of cancer deaths. Because metastasis presents a…
ISEF · 2018
Motion Activated Auditory Deterrents to Prevent Wildlife Vehicular Collisions Along High-Density Wildlife Crossing
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to engineer a device that could be placed into a real wildlife environment with the ability to deter wildlife from crossing roads to avoid wildlife vehicle…
ISEF · 2018
Mucoadhesive HA-Based Film Releasing Metronidazole to Treat Bacterial Vaginosis
Translational Medical Science
Bacterial vaginosis is a very prevalent women's health issue that affects millions of women worldwide every year, and many current treatments are messy, inconvenient, and ineffective. Theref…
ISEF · 2018
Multicopter Autonomous Refueling System
Embedded Systems
Nowadays drones are becoming a main topic in research and development as their use is increasing day by day in all domains. Today a drone infinite flight has become a prerequisite but unfort…
ISEF · 2018
Multi-Fuel Analysis
Energy: Chemical
When purchasing a car, consumers must select what type of fuel they want to use in the car. The ability to use one engine that could run on multiple fuel types would allow consumers to choos…
ISEF · 2018
Multifunctional, Hybrid Electrocatalityc Systems Active Towards Electroreduction of Oxygen
Chemistry Fourth Award
The objective of the project was to create new nanostructural catalytic systems capable of effective electroreduction of oxygen, which can be used in the construction of low-temperature fuel…
ISEF · 2018
Multiple Sclerosis and Epilepsy: Insights into a Potential Therapy Through the Role of Mutation T1244C of Theiler's Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus (TMEV) in Reducing Virulence
Biomedical and Health Sciences
TMEV, a murine single-stranded positive sense RNA virus, is a model for both multiple sclerosis (MS) and epilepsy, as it results in a demyelinating encephalomyelitis in the CNS, resembling M…