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ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Current HIV therapies lead to drug resistance and fail to address the latent viral reservoir which reactivates and inevitably leads to AIDS and mortality. Commonly infectious HIV targets T-c…
ISEF · 2016
CRISPR Cas9 is a protein that precisely cuts a sequence complementary to a guide RNA. Recently, a CRISPR/Cas9 based self-cleaving genetic system has been engineered such that DNA can be deli…
ISEF · 2016
The goal of the experiment was to see if the bacteria found in coolers is dangerous or harmful. In this experiment four coolers were swabbed. The bacteria found was incubated for forty-eight…
ISEF · 2016
Black Rubber, commonly found in tires and crumb rubber, is known to have carcinogenic materials and compounds such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Crumb rubber is recyc…
ISEF · 2016
Numerous locations throughout the United States are reporting the presence of radon and uranium in their drinking water, particularly in households with well water drinking sources. Areas in…
ISEF · 2016
Because of the technology available in today's modern world, scientists have recently discovered ice on Mars. The question is: how can scientists confidently determine whether or not the ice…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
The discovery and development of chemotherapeutic drugs is a continuous worldwide demand. This study was designed as an anticancer prescreening to evaluate the cytotoxic and genotoxic potent…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
The experiment is designed to test how dodecatrylinol and neocembrene, termite pheromones mimicked by ballpoint pen ink, affect in-wall termite colonies when used in imidacloprid-based traps…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Deafness is hearing deficiency or hearing loss it refers to the inability to hear things either totally or partially. Symptoms may be mild, moderate, severe or profound. Deaf people suffer f…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
There are several “safe” food myths that are prevalent in today’s society, but the question remains whether or not they actually hold true. To determine the safeness of following certain foo…
ISEF · 2016
Aggregation and cytotoxicity of amyloid-ß (Aß) with redox-active metals in neuronal cells have been implicated in the progression of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Particularly, dysregulated inte…
ISEF · 2016
The rapid development of industry in Gebze – Dilovasi region where our school is located, the environment is under great threat by industrial gases released into the atmosphere. Never the le…
ISEF · 2016
In the field of artificial intelligence, computers are exceptional at recognizing objects from images, but struggle with recognizing actions from images. In 2011, a human action dataset (Sta…
ISEF · 2016
Genetic evaluation can predict cancers and other genetic diseases before expression in the phenotype, allowing for early preventative treatment. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) are the…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
A cat released in mid-air devoid of angular momentum or anything to push off easily maneuvers to land on its feet. Similarly, a diver can leave a diving board with no angular momentum and ye…
ISEF · 2016
The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) plays a critical role in the regulation of plant tolerance to drought. ABA stimulates root growth in plants to increase their ability to extract water f…
ISEF · 2016
The experiment investigated whether whitening toothpastes have a lower pH than non-whitening toothpastes, whether whitening toothpastes whiten teeth more than non-whitening toothpastes and w…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
When an orb web is impacted by a small object, it is possible for spiders to locate the point of impact exclusively by measuring the propagation of the resulting transversal waves through th…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
This study investigates the fluid intelligent capabilities of a layered artificial intelligence in the feed of streaming polymorphic unstructured data. The model aims to simulate mathematica…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict. In contrast, water scarcity is one of the biggest grand challenge…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Targeted genetic engineering with CRISPR-Cas9 endonucleases is an exciting development with many potential applications in science and medicine. However, a primary challenge in realizing CRI…
ISEF · 2016
Devices created to harness the power of wind have been used for centuries to perform a variety of different tasks from milling to pumping. In modern times the wind turbine, a device that con…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Betulin is a compound found in the bark of birch trees. Betulinic acid, a betulin derivative, exhibits ready availability and selective cytotoxicity as an anti-cancer agent, as designated by…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Reverse osmosis (RO) has proven an effective method of water purification and has been widely implemented in much of the industrialized world. However, high production and energy costs of th…
ISEF · 2016
I have developed a cost effective aquaponic system that can be sustained in an average urban household. My initial goal was to develop an inexpensive system that urban families could use to…
ISEF · 2016
In developing areas where professional medical care is scarce, the labor complications that result in the development of obstetric fistulae are common and the effects devastating, with over…
ISEF · 2016
Glioblastoma (GBM) and Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) are the most lethal form of brain cancer in adults and children respectively. There are clinical trials aimed at trying to kill…
ISEF · 2016
This project was undertaken with the goal of creating a robust program with the ability to investigate ocean mass gain, and the contributing factors. The expected findings were a very strong…
ISEF · 2016
The aorta is the most important artery in the human body. Aortic aneurysms are the aorta’s main disease, which affects 2-7% of men over 65 years. Current treatments for aneurysms are open su…
ISEF · 2016
In this engineering project, a sounding rocket using an 80 Ns motor was optimized for altitude. A numerical simulation was used to model the rocket's flight characteristics. Through the simu…