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ISEF · 2016
Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sanguinis are two bacteria that compete for limited tooth surface. This study was done to determine which one was stronger. Through experimentation, it…
ISEF · 2016
Heavy metals are an environmental hazard and a human health concern. They are difficult and costly to remove from the environment. Phytoremediation is an inexpensive and effective alternativ…
ISEF · 2016
With the rapid increase of industrialization and modernization, the consumption of domestic materials for development increases accordingly. Due to limited wood supply, humans resort to usin…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Plant roots are susceptible to damage from insects, microbes, and poor soil conditions, but their high capacity for regeneration gives them the ability to recover. Many of the molecular step…
ISEF · 2016
Plant vaccines to reduce the disease by induced self-defense priming by phytochemicals are at its infancy. This study explores the chances of self-defense priming in Chinese cabbage, Brassic…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The goal of the research was to understand the processes going on under high voltage electrolysis and to bring attention to the possible applications of the new scientific field. Electrolysi…
ISEF · 2016
The research conducted focused on developing a method to perform a semi-quantitative platelet count on abnormal blood smears (Hemaglobinopathy, or sickle cell anemia, and Elevated Mean Plate…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Drug resistant malarial parasites and inability to monitor patient response to treatment kill nearly a million people every year. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a highly sensit…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The world we live in is surrounded by a layer of contaminated grime and toxic agents which slowly but surely chip away at our immune system. These pollutants hold us back from a successful a…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Coxa Saltans, a condition of the hip, comes in three forms that manipulate a snap, but the contributing factors vary. Internal Coxa Saltans, on which this research focuses, occurs when the i…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Polymers that form polymer-DNA complexes (polyplexes) have been established to be safer and more effective -without causing death to harmless cells- than Chemotherapy and viral-mediated tran…
ISEF · 2016
The project consisted in the design and creation of a solar water heater to basis of polymers, taking advantage of the urban and rural solid waste generated in the community of Texmelucan. T…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Biopolymers are all those polymers that are naturally produced such as starch and cellulose. And they may be assimilated by various biodegradable species without having a toxic effect on the…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate which homemade biogas generator was the best one for daily use in a household. Five different designs of biogas generators were built based…
ISEF · 2016
Ultrasound targeted microbubble destruction (UTMD) has become a widely researched method of drug delivery. This method utilizes the behavior of gas filled microbubbles in response to targete…
ISEF · 2016
Electromagnetic induction says that when magnetic flux changes through a closed contour, an electric field will be inducted. The magnetic flux changes if the contour and the magnet move rela…
ISEF · 2016
Across the world, 26 000 people per year become limb deficient. For those children that live in developing countries where there is little financial support, an industrial prosthetic hand co…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Platinum-based drugs are irreplaceable in cancer chemotherapy, including three globally approved generations: cisplatin, carboplatin and oxaliplatin, however, these drugs still have undesira…
ISEF · 2016
Tomato is the mostly produced vegetable both in Turkey and in the World. Almost half of the greenhouse grown tomatoes in Turkey are produced in out of season, therefore, tomatoes can be deli…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
The objective of this study was to control and normalize factors linked to death of brain neurons during Alzheimer’s disease (AD) using maximum safe dosages of multi-vitamins and minerals (M…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of different tannin concentrations on potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida in in vitro and in vivo experiments and then determine phytotoxic…
ISEF · 2016
The loss of a hand is severely traumatic both emotionally and physically. Prosthetic's are devices that can help restore some of the functionality to the user. However, current prosthetic's…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Developing countries have always faced poverty as the main national issue, most of their citizens are peasants around the world are living in poverty. Prior studies show two factors which ca…
ISEF · 2016
Fossil power plants, nuclear power plants, fracking - all those processes are ways to produce electricity or natural gas. They are known for being really dangerous for our environment. So th…
ISEF · 2016
High altitude balloon research conducted by universities and government research teams like NOAA and the EPA are expensive projects. The total equipment value for an average flight exceeds $…
ISEF · 2016
Predictable or Chaotic: Orbits vs. Weather investigates the predictability of planetary and weather systems. In order to do this, a computer code was written to model each system. A simple a…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
A non-invasive risk-analysis tool was developed for assessing HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer using oral-rinse samples. The idea for this tool came from work that showed evidence of abno…
ISEF · 2016
Despite the widely known health risks of obesity, there is no accurate and reliable way to predict if an individual will become obese in the future. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are cap…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of my project is to predict the progression of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) by creating a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system using image features from an MRI. I hypothesized that I…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Synergistic drug combinations for cancer have the potential to save millions of lives each year through lowering toxicity, limiting side effects, and drastically increasing the efficacy of t…