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Sucrose Goes Glucose

In the body, sucrose is broken down into glucose and fructose, and this process in catalyzed by an enzyme referred to as sucrase in humans and invertase in plants and yeasts. As a result of…

Superconductive Hybrid Desalination

Fourth Award

Water resources scarcity is central problem in Egypt and when it comes to human health, it must be our top priority. According to the UN (20091), 1,164,000 of the total Egyptian population d…

Superconductive Rings as a Way to Obtain High-Powered Magnetic Fields

Gyrotron operates due to high magnetic fields. It is possible to generate them using a ring made from high-temperature superconductors. The main objectives of the project are developing the…

Superconductors and Magnetism

In this investigation, the properties and effects of the magnetic forces, namely flux expulsion, the Meissner effect, and flux pinning, associated with superconductivity are explored and qua…

Superluminal Data Transfer via Photons through Semi-Stabilized Einstein-Rosen Bridges

Current methods of data transfer are limited by speed-of-light transmission delays, a problem for interplanetary communications and other applications. The possibility of communication via l…

Superparamagnetic Iron(II,III) Oxide Silver Cysteine Complex Nanoparticles (SISCCN) in Metal Ions Adsorption and Chiral Recognition

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award

Superparamagnetic iron(II,III) oxide silver cysteine complex nanoparticles (SISCCN) is an innovative, economical and highly reusable invention. 1 g of SISCCN can adsorb 281.13 mg mercury(II)…

SUPER-PLANT: A Multifunctional Sustainable Energy System for the Curbing and Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Fourth Award

Climate change is the greatest humanitarian dilemma of our time threatening our public health, the environment, the economy, our national security and more. In the years to come, the combina…

Suppression of Antimicrobial Resistance in MRSA Using CRISPRs, Part II

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPRs) are genetic elements that function with CRISPR-Associated (Cas) proteins to cleave genes. The CRISPR-dCas9 system is modif…

Surface Modification of Polycaprolactone and Hydroxyapatite Endosseous Implant Fixture Coatings

Over 4.4 million Americans have at least one internal fixation device (dental or orthopedic implant) susceptible to implant loosening post- surgery. Biointerlocking implant coatings often de…

Surveying Sickle Cell Allele Frequency

Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic condition present at birth. We screened willing participants within our area to indicate whether or not they had the trait or the disease. The screening cons…

Survey Says!

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

What I hope to achieve in this experiment is to determine the percentage of students who have anxiety disorders, if females have it more commonly than males, or vise versa, and what age grou…

Sustainable Transformation of Brewed Coffee and Tea Grounds to Useful Mesoporous Carbon Membranes

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Coffee and tea are the two most common beverages in the world. Generally coffee is made from beans, while tea is from leaves. Every year, the tremendous amount of used coffee grounds and tea…

Sweet Potato Whitefly Infestation in the Agricultural Industry: Examining the Effects of Nitrogen Fertilizer on Whitefly Fecundity

Biochemistry

Whiteflies (Bemisia Tabaci) are phloem-feeding pests that carry and spread diseases, with the capability of causing widespread damage to global food production. Thus, whiteflies are one of t…

Synergistic Effects of Elderberry Extract in Conjunction with Antibiotics

Previous research has shown evidence that Elderberry (Sambuscus) has synergistic effects against bacterias when used with Chloramphenicol, Ampicillin, and Trimethoprim. This study is an atte…

Synthesis of Biodiesel from Hydrolyzed Rice By-Products Fermented with Engineered B. subtilis

Current methods for production of biodiesel are not cost competitive when prices of crude oil are low. This study proposes a biodiesel production method that produces surfactant as a coprodu…

Synthesis of Nanocomposites Gold in Starch Matrix

The present project aims to develop the mechanism for introduction of gold nanoparticles into a biological system. To achieve this, we are looking for biologically compatible matrix that on…

Synthesis of Thermoresponsive pNIPAM-b-HEA Block Co-Polymer Hydrogels for Drug Delivery Applications

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is ranked as the third major global cause of blindness as reported by the World Health Organization. At present posterior ophthalmic drug delivery proc…

Tailored Synthesis for Morphology Control of Hematite Nanoparticles

Hematite (a-Fe2O3) is a low-cost stable iron oxide phase used in various applications including solar cells and drug delivery. Its properties, which dictate its applications, are highly morp…

Taj Eco Board

Taj Eco board is a notice board that we produced from paddy straws. As we know, paddy straws are usually burned. However, paddy straws can be used in experiments incorporating paddy straws w…

Take to Heart Your Fitness

Running is an aerobic sport that requires training to help you improve. In my experiment I wanted to know: How does heart rate and respiration rate reflect upon a person’s fitness level? Hea…

Targeting Mistranslation in Cancer and Neurodegenerative Disease Therapies

Third Award

A growing body of evidence suggests that failures in aminoacyl-tRNA editing lead to perturbation of protein homeostasis, damaging the cellular environment. Studies in human cells lines have…

Temperature and Its Effect on the Elasticity of Rubber Bands

Polymers, once mysterious chemical compounds, have now become among the most widely used products in the world. Whether in industrial equipment or office supplies, these substances play an i…

Temperature Difference Equals Free Energy

* In Kuwait, the shortage of power supply occur during summer. This is the time, when the solar power is abundant and the temperature of air reaches close to 50o C. The average seawater temp…

Terminating Cancer: Engineering the Taxol Biosynthesis Pathway in E. coli

Though taxol (paclitaxel) is an anticancer drug used in many chemotherapy treatments, it is only found in its pure form in the bark of the rare Pacific yew tree. To obtain 1 gram of Taxol, t…

Testing Cost Effective Scintillators for the Strip PET Scanner

A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is a popular imaging device that helps reveal regions of high metabolic activity correlating to cancerous areas in the body. This procedure involves…

Testing the Effectiveness of Natural Remedies versus Synthetic Antibiotics against Salmonella choleraesuis

The purpose of this experiment provides research on the use of natural remedies instead of antibiotics against Salmonella choleraesuis. This helps society by providing a solution for a major…

Testing the Effects of the BET Inhibitor JQ1 on the Memory of Dardanus calidus

JQ1 is a drug that is very efficient in killing cancer by blocking the Brd4 signals that tells cancer cells to divide, but the drug is commonly associated with memory loss. Hermit crabs were…

Testing the Validity of Pau D'arco as an Antimicrobial Agent

Finding new antibiotics are very important to the survival of humanity. This experiment was conducted to see if the extract from the inner bark of the Pau D'arco tree can hold up to the clai…

Testing the Water Quality of Karst Outflows in the Ozarks

Second Award

The health of water in a karst system stems from the interaction between ground and surface water. Within the Ozark Highland region many people rely upon springs for their water. Unfortunate…

Testing Valproic Acid and Surfactant Regulation as Potential Therapeutics for Nitrogen Mustard Injury

Biomedical Engineering Third Award

Tissues were obtained from a previous study in which rats were exposed to NM (.125 mg) or PBS (which was used as a control) through an intratracheal injection; after 30 minutes rats received…