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ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Everybody knows that cleaning the oral cavity is good for oral hygiene. However, not everyone knows that during the night sleep, when our mouth doesn’t do saliva flushing, bacteria grows a l…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) is a Neglected Tropical Disease caused by the parasitic nematodes Wuchereria and Brugia. Over 120 million people worldwide are infected and more than 1.4…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Global carbon dioxide emissions have become one of the most pressing concerns for the world, as the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris suggests; however, global reduction…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Hematopoietic system is a complex example of the stem cell concept that provides good opportunities for proliferation and differentiation studies. True hematopoietic stem cell that is charac…
ISEF · 2016
Microbeads were found in the Great Lakes and studies show how marine life, such as zooplankton, are mistaking them for food, and how the microbeads are potentially harming them. Organisms ca…
ISEF · 2016
Background: Millions of people worldwide nowadays wear contact lenses (CLs) to improve vision disorders. CLs preservative solutions can act as a vector for microorganisms to adhere to the oc…
ISEF · 2016
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is recently considered as a promising technique for the remediation of contaminated water. In this study, we constructed a novel MFC device to realize efficient rem…
ISEF · 2016
For years, the United States has been dependent on fossil fuels as their energy source; but because of its negative effect on the ecosystem, the pursuit for renewable energy began. The proce…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Thermotaxis, the directional motion of an organism towards specific temperatures, has been observed in several species of bacteria. Quantitative studies of thermotaxis in bacteria however ha…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
Milkaumentar, as the name suggests, is a revolutionary phenomenon that increases milk production in livestock animals by improving their digestion. In a country like Pakistan, where milk pro…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The age of robotics is upon us as we blast through the 21st century, our technology continues to increase exponentially. Rapid advancements in 3D printing is revolutionizing the world of eng…
ISEF · 2016
Elderly or people with chronic illnesses such as heart problems may suffer sudden onset of heart attack or stroke when alone in remote countryside or secluded places, making timely rescue di…
ISEF · 2016
Coral reefs are a critical part of the ocean’s ecology, being home to 4,000 species of fish and 700 species of coral. Increasing levels of greenhouse gases, notably CO2 , cause acidification…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic central nervous system degenerative disease associated with resting tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, and progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Allergies are an important health issue in our community. We want to develop a drug to lower the effects of allergies by characterizing the IgE receptor in a mast cell. The mast cell is an i…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE), which defines genetic equilibrium in a population, is fundamental for studies in population genetics. Deviations from HWE, or changes in allele frequency in…
ISEF · 2016
The search for clean, abundant, cost-effective compounds, have led to experiment with green vegetative material to produce electric energy. The hypothesis established that voltage data obtai…
ISEF · 2016
This project addresses the issue of increasing drug resistance of pathogenic bacteria in the post-antibiotic era through mathematical and computational analyses. The analyses were focused on…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Mutations in the human ACVR1 receptor protein have been proven to cause the degenerative disease Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP). To date, in vivo methods of small-molecule drug…
ISEF · 2016
The curious behavior of coupled oscillators has intrigued physicists for centuries. The first to discuss this phenomenon was physicist Christian Huygens, who discovered an odd synchronizatio…
ISEF · 2016
Disabled and old people usually suffer by not being able to move freely as they require as well as to attend to their daily routine work. Most of the crutches available in the market is fixe…
ISEF · 2016
Egypt faces a lot of issues that gravely influence its economy, industry, agriculture and the environment in general. For us, the most significant one is the energy crises, using alternative…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project was to determine if cellulose acetate extracted from cigarette filters could enhance the properties of plastic and reduce the amount of plastic used for the produ…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Kava has been used by Pacific Islanders for years. The purpose of this project was to determine which of the Kava metabolites activate THP-1 macrophages to produce pro/anti-inflammatory cyto…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The obligate self-pollination aspect in mature Lactuca sativa (lettuce) plants impedes the propagation of traits of commercial interest and makes crossbreeding difficult and tedious. The pur…
ISEF · 2016
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) provides the chemical energy needed in most biological processes from metabolic reactions to cellular mechanics. ATP consists of an adenine ring, a ribose sugar,…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Improper signaling of the nuclear factor-?B (NF-?B) pathway plays a critical role in many inflammatory disease states, including cancer, stroke, and viral infections. Although a majority of…
ISEF · 2016
The effects of non-coding RNAs on the regulation of gene expression are researched.In our project by using bioinformatics methods, we aimed to specify the importance of possible similarities…
ISEF · 2016
The rapid advancement of trading makes many fraud cases are encountered such as counterfeiting of paper money. Persons with visual impairment also undertake trading activities, either as a h…
ISEF · 2016
Electroencephalogram (EEG) machines are often used to diagnose and monitor seizures, brain abnormalities, and sleep disorders, as well as for biofeedback. Versatile personal EEG machines oft…