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ISEF · 2016
With 400 million diabetic patients in the world, diabetes is a global epidemic that can lower life expectancy by a decade, quadruple the risk of heart disease, and cause kidney failure or ad…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
PCSK9 inhibitors are a new class of cholesterol-lowering drugs that are complicated to take: patients have to inject themselves every 2 weeks and store the medicine in the refrigerator betwe…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Chloroquine (CQ) is a drug used to treat malaria, auto-immune disorders, and most recently, cancer. In ongoing clinical trials in cancer, CQ is used as an autophagy inhibitor. However, the u…
ISEF · 2016
Twelve people are killed daily because of unexploded landmines and other ordnance left behind by the war. Tens of millions of square kilometers of land are inaccessible for economic use beca…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Arteriosclerosis, which is the stiffening and thickening of an artery, is the leading cause of death globally. By the time symptoms of this disease appear, the condition has already reached…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Vehicle exhaust is one of the major pollution sources. An efficient method of emission control is to convert exhaust pollutants to less harmful substances by the catalyst placed in the exhau…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The number of wearable and implantable devices (WIDs) used is projected to reach 515 million by 2017. A major limitation with many WIDs is the need for expensive and cumbersome battery repla…
ISEF · 2016
Metallosis is a prevalent condition that is an immune response secondary to metal particulate buildup in the body. Cobalt is a primary component in artificial metal joints, and concentration…
ISEF · 2016
The development of drug resistance and tumor metastasis in cancer cells severely limits chemotherapy effectiveness. This study used a novel approach of combining gene therapy with nanotechno…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The ability to predict protein structure is a major challenge in computational biology, with wide-ranging applications from understanding disease mechanisms to designing targeted therapies f…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common auto immune disorder of the central nervous system with a wide range of signs and symptoms. Demyelination of myelin sheath over the axon occurs, wh…
ISEF · 2016
Waste lubricant oils are considered toxic residues that require strict management or are better innovatively recycled. This work investigated and proposed a novel process to recover used hyd…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Pollution control is currently viewed as a cost, something to be avoided and ideally passed down to the next generations. This study focuses on converting nutrient pollution into a product o…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Prostheses are currently inhibited by the utilizing of costly apparatuses and inefficient technology. The design of this prosthetic hand looks to integrate cost-efficient devices to create a…
ISEF · 2016
DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) arise as a result of chromosomal replication errors or exposure to ionizing radiation or genotoxins. If unrepaired, DSBs may cause genomic instability and car…
ISEF · 2016
Electrochemical Advanced Oxidation Processes (EAOPs) have gained interest recently for their ability to continuously degrade waste compounds without the need for a constant supply of chemica…
ISEF · 2016
Numerous attempts have been made to develop standalone electroencephalogram (EEG) and eye tracking based human computer interface (HCI) systems, but the success of such systems when used ind…
ISEF · 2016
Rigid robotic hands are expensive and difficult to control due to their inherently complex multi-jointed fingers and lack of compliance. To address these problems in an interdisciplinary app…
ISEF · 2016
Marine pollutants such as microplastics and oil spills are major environmental hazards. The beaches of the Seto Inland Sea of Japan have become littered with plastics and polystyrene foam. I…
ISEF · 2016
Two Dimensional vortex flow models are extremely valuable to researchers, as they can be used to predict the formation and evolution of naturally occurring vortices such as Jupiter’s Great R…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Candida glabrata is a fungus that causes life threatening infection in humans. Recently, some strains have become resistant to current antifungal drugs such as caspofungin, and new drugs are…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
This experiment investigates the synthesis, purification, and stability of encapsulated quantum dots. Quantum dots, specific types of nanoparticles ranging from 2-10 nm in diameter, emit spe…
ISEF · 2016
Programming robots can be slow and challenging. In trying to build a gesture based robotic manipulation , i asked myself whether it would not be possible to design an application that robot…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Changes in chromatin state have been linked to developmental defects and diseases such as cancer. Thus it is important to understand how chromatin states are established and maintained. Modi…
ISEF · 2016
Antibiotic resistances was one of the most health problem in South East Asia. Increasing the infectious disease will be increasing the antibiotic demand. Investigating the new source of anti…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
Plantago major, commonly known as ribwort plantain is very popular used as a natural home remedies for stomach aches or skin infections. The purpose of this experiment was to prove if it rea…
ISEF · 2016
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The bottom part of the nutrient medium-filled test tube where Drosophila melanogaster larvae are kept doesn’t become moldy, while its upper part where adult flies are dwelling becomes moldy.…
ISEF · 2016
Antibiotics can be prescribed for infections too early, often, incorrectly dosed, or without consideration for least potent dosage first. Fortunately, some doctors practice caution when pres…
ISEF · 2016
Fire blight, caused by the pathogenic bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most destructive and thus very significant from the economic point of view, disease of apples, pears and many…
ISEF · 2016
The global prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis was 0.24%, DALYs increased from 3.3 million in 1990 to 4.8 million in 2010. The total costs attributable to arthritis and other rheumatic condit…