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ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
After Hurricane Maria devastated the island's power grid. Most of the people were left without electricity for a long time. It is not cost effective to invest from $500-$2,000 plus $504 mont…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Serum proteins can generally be a rich resource for the illness’ indication. They are invaluable resources to detect illnesses such as inflammation, cancer, diabetes, malnutrition, cardiovas…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Purpose: The experiment identified Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) as a novel molecular target in Serous Ovarian Carcinoma determined the potential of SSI-4, an SCD1 inhibitor, as a novel m…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Kinesins are motor proteins that move unidirectionally along microtubules as they hydrolyze ATP. Although the general features of the kinesin walking mechanism are becoming increasingly clea…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
Our team took on this challenge by copying the skills of some animals such as bats and dolphin, which emit sonar calls into their surroundings and receive it again to divert away from them.…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Next-generation intracellular delivery solutions are necessary and will provide essential roles in drug therapeutic applications as well as being critical components of genome editing approa…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products(PPCPs) are aquatic contaminants that have been detected in surface water globally. However, their aquatic toxicity, especially in complex mixtures,…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Today’s farmers must be innovative and cautiously smart with the way that the markets are continuing to trend. They must figure out how cost may be eliminated, what they can do to increase p…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
After trying to naturally reduce nitrate levels in an aquarium, we began to wonder if there were natural ways to remove nitrate levels in streams. We collected stream water from the New Prag…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Silent Myocardial Infarctions (SMIs) produce non-specific ambiguous symptoms in patients who are at-risk (ie., diabetic, etc.) because of associated nerve damages. Currently, there's almost…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The project’s purpose was to code and train an artificial intelligence model, as well as to make an auxiliary device that monitors infants in their sleep to prevent cases of Sudden Infant De…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD) is expected to become the third largest killer worldwide by 2030. Current diagnosis mechanisms are time-consuming and costly, highlighting the ne…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Exposure to organic environmental contaminants in water supplies can lead to adverse health effects. Non-thermal plasmas have been proposed for waste-water treatment as a means to degrade or…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Rapidly emergent within the scientific community are drug delivery systems, complex amalgamations of medicinals consolidated into a controllable vehicle that seeks to maximize immediacy and…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
After harvesting, rice stubble left in the fields become agriculture waste which is hard to removed. However, most farmers prefer the convenient way of burning the rice stubbles which eventu…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry Third Award
Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of bacteremia and endocarditis with high mortality rate. Recent studies demonstrated that S. aureus quickly responds to each new antibiotic, even to…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Organic polymeric materials have attracted extensive attention for optical devices, consumer electronics, and biomedical tools due to their combination of optical, electrical, mechanical, an…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Recent efforts on capacitive sensors and supercapacitor designs have worked towards developing materials that can be seamlessly integrated into devices with irregular geometries and form fac…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
As the human population continues to increase, aggravating mosquito disease transmission, a control measure for mosquitoes is imperative. Mosquito control using sound would be an improvement…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
The presence of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in a patient's blood may indicate the aggressiveness of metastatic cancer, and the detection of CTCs can assist physicians in decision making a…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry Third Award
Replication stress is one of the major sources of genomic instability in tumor cells. DNA replication is threatened by various obstacles which impede its progression and can lead to nascent…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Diabetes is a multi-factorial disorder, characterized by chronic elevation of glucose in the blood. Chronic exposure to high glucose (HG) is a leading cause of cell damage, which is responsi…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Better understanding fruit growth and development could result in an increase in the world’s food and feed supply. This project employed classical molecular approaches together with a new ge…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Fourth Award
The opioid epidemic has reached alarming levels and was declared a national public health emergency. Use of street available opioids such as heroin have doubled and deaths from overdose have…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
As we move into the future, increasing energy demands of technologies like electric vehicles have led to interest in more sustainable materials and more efficient battery systems. Bio-based…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology First Award
Epstein-Barr virus is an oncogenic herpesvirus which causes over 150,000 fatalities annually and has no FDA-approved treatment. Latent EBV is characterized by limited gene expression, which…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Organ transplantation is facing a number of increasingly worrisome problems. Organ shortage threatens an increase in waitlisted patient’s mortality. Incompatibility and immunosuppressive com…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
A rapid, inexpensive, and non-invasive warning mechanism for imminent stroke and epileptic seizures was developed using gold nanoparticle-hydrogel composites. Stroke is the third leading cau…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Fourth Award
In this project, it is investigated a problem of exploring of the rule of number patterns. In fact, the problem is to find general term of the number sequences, if we have some consecutive t…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), or the theory of the strong interaction, states that at the high temperatures and densities produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, nucleons de- confine…