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ISEF · 2016
First Award
1,205,127 acres of land have been lost in Louisiana since 1932 which has a detrimental impact not only on the economy but the ecosystems. The objective of this research was to determine the…
ISEF · 2016
Hematopoietic stem cells are used for treating blood related-diseases such as leukemias, lymphomas, hereditary anemias and bone marrow failures. They can be retrieved from the bone marrow, c…
ISEF · 2016
Heart disease is the number one killer in the world. Every year, 720,000 heart attacks happen in the U.S. Despite medical technology advancing rapidly, medical science lags behind. This is b…
ISEF · 2016
Montmorillonite is a common silicate mineral that is a major constituent of the Earth's soils. This clay also belongs to a group of clays known as swelling clays, which increase in size when…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The increasing drug resistance among Gram-positive bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become a growing threat and thus the necessity for novel antibacter…
ISEF · 2016
Silvervine is a deciduous vine that is native to the continent of Asia and the islands of Japan. This plant has two unique characteristics: (1) leaves on the end part of the shoot turn white…
ISEF · 2016
My research regards some of the main developments in the electrochemical field. We tried to use sodium hypochlorite as a depolarizer for batteries. The depolarizer is fundamental for the cor…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The purpose of this retrospective and observational study was to see the effect of the missing X chromosome in women (a condition known as Turner Syndrome) on the liver. It was expected that…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
This work aimed at finding out the best type of diet for farming apple snail and also to evaluate the efficiency of the artificial diet which combines vegetable and animal protein, in the fa…
ISEF · 2016
Binary stars dominate in the Galaxy, yet their actual percentage is unknown. Thus their identification, verification, and description are important. The goal of my project was to determine t…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this research project is to determine the amount of vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) in a native fruit from Peru, called Tumbo or Passiflora mollisima L. that is little-known by the…
ISEF · 2016
The world faces pollution in many of its resources, most commonly in water, ground, and air. Water pollution is a form of biodegradation when pollutants are discharged into water bodies. One…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Antinuclear Antibody (ANA) in Systemic Erythematosus Autoimmune Disease patients was assumed to be capable of binding and killing cancer cells. This project has been carried out to experimen…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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)…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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…
ISEF · 2016
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…