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ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Autophagy is a process through which a cell recycles its components to generate energy. Studies show autophagy is involved in diabetic retinopathy, a diabetes complication where retinal cell…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Acid mine drainage poses a major risk to the nearby ecosystems as the accompanying low pH and high metal content kill plants. Sulfate-reducing bacteria have the potential to remediate this d…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
The amputation of a thoracic limb, which is twice as likely as a hind limb due to the commonality of Osteosarcoma in large breeds, often leads to overuse of the shoulders and joints, resulti…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences Second Award
Coastal ecosystems are being threatened by increased anthropogenic activity and large-scale changes in ocean systems due to climate change. Tropicalization, the increase in the ratio of trop…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Transition metal-based layered double hydroxide (LDH) water-splitting electrocatalysts are known to have distinctive structural and electronic properties that facilitate the water-splitting…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics
This research aims to find strategies to solve the following problem: the minimum number of ant-sucking machines which are needed to guarantee the capture of all ants on an m by n grid graph…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Ulcerative colitis (UC) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) are associated with high risks of colorectal cancer (CRC), yet bacterial biomarkers for CRC present in both remain unclear. In this study, a…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Sanskrit/Devanagari, what may be known as a dead language in modern times, at one point was a rich and advanced language that was spoken by many people who lived as far back as 1700 BCE. Anc…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The use of advanced analytics, when applied properly, can offer a greater understanding of its topic of study. For example, advanced analytics in healthcare data can be used to analyze patie…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics
This essay aims to understand the basics of the four color theorem, why it was so hard to prove, and why false proofs failed to prove the theorem. The four color theorem states that a map ca…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Surface irregularities have shown a tendency to reduce aerodynamic drag for projectiles in motion. They do so by reducing the area of low pressure that builds up behind an object when it is…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
At the moment, monitoring and control of underwater wellhead systems of oil production is carried out with the help of sensors and a special ship, on board of which there is an underwater ve…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, (SARS-CoV-2) emerged, resulting in a global pandemic. Temperature monitoring is often conducted before entry into school/work to check for fe…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The purpose of this experiment is to demonstrate the effect of safety mask usage on the infection and mortality rates of a simulated airborne pathogen. The results should reflect the effects…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a process by which epithelial cancer cells acquire a mesenchymal phenotype, reportedly…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Phosphofructokinase-1 (PFK-1) is an allosteric enzyme in glycolysis that regulates the ATP-dependent phosphorylation of fructose 6-phosphate (F6P) into fructose 1,6-bisphosphate (FBP). In ca…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
We can find a better practice for reducing the rate of hospitalization from OTC acetaminophen consumption. First, we researched over-the-counter acetaminophen and its current overdose rate.…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Environmental pollution has been an issue of great importance and concern for many countries. Livestock is an agricultural activity that contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Hand guided cobots are a type of collaborative robot that take direct input from an operator holding and moving parts of it. Collaborative robots could be used to reproduce movements and act…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
Manihot esculenta is a plant known as cassava. It has been used as a plant fertilizer, but it has not been tested to extend the viable life of a plant during the phytoremediation process. Th…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to test if mealworm larvae are an effective plastic cleanup method. 1500 mealworms were divided into 15 different habitats with 100 larvae in each group. F…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Many potential researchers in underdeveloped countries do not have access to the tools they need to make medical discoveries or solve health problems in their communities. One such tool is t…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics
The purpose of this project is to determine if it is possible to effectively use traditional regression models to predict an event whose outcome has historically been unpredictable. In our c…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the field of computer vision, a large amount of annotated data is the key to success in deep learning because these computer models need a wider variety of data to “train” and be able to…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Despite the appearance of clean water, all across the world in our oceans and major water sources, there are toxic metal pollutants occurring every year. These heavy metals can have a densit…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Third Award
Is it possible to measure the sentiments and emotions linked to words by analyzing their usage in different contexts? This experiment compares how feminine and masculine words are used in te…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the United States. Death in prostate cancer patients is often related to medical conditions other than prostate cancer itself. Hence, it i…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
According to the CDC, approximately 3500 infants die annually in the United States from sleep-related infant deaths, such as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). My project aims to reduce th…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Based on the study conducted at Poznan water treatment plant in Warsaw, which uses freshwater mussels as an early warning system for heavy metal contamination in their water. This study aims…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
According to the National Cancer Institute, over 170,000 people in the United States are affected by some type of blood cancer accounting for approximately 3% of all cancer types diagnosed i…