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ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
Textile azo dyes are a significant pollution source worldwide. Azo dyes can be toxic and carcinogenic, and their contamination adversely impacts human and aquatic ecosystem health. Metal nan…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Lowering a horse's heart rate is critical in many different situations. This study investigated the effect of classical music when grooming a horse on the neck and withers after exercise. Pr…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Colorectal cancer affects more than 130,000 people per year. Currently, the available methods of treatment target cancer cells by eliminating all rapidly proliferating cells, including norma…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Recognizing and reacting to a hazard in sufficient time to avoid the hazard is essential to safe driving. Anything that detracts from the vehicle operator’s ability to focus on the driving t…
ISEF · 2016
The differentiation of CD8 T-cells in response to viral infection is a hallmark trait of the acquired immune system, and many genetic factors play into its development. The epigenetic mechan…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Bisphenol A (BPA) is present in a variety of consumer products and has been linked to numerous health effects in humans. Especially in food and beverage containers, the inner epoxy liner of…
ISEF · 2016
In a growing number if fields, robots are being used to carry out tasks ranging from delivering mail to carrying out drone strikes. Recently developers of these robots are focusing on a type…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a highly malignant astrocytoma due to an elevated reproductive rate and plentiful blood flow to the region. It is resistant to conventional treatments, and n…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
Background:A Telomere is a repetitive base sequence found at the tip of a chromosome to protect the ends of the chromosome from degenerating and from fusing with neighboring chromosomes duri…
ISEF · 2016
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The researcher believes that if humans are exposed to human attractant pheromones, they will rate people as more attractive and believe each person is more successful. The experiment include…
ISEF · 2016
Ibuprofen is a pharmaceutical and Lubriculus variegatus is a freshwater oligochaete (Drewes, 2013). The question is: What effect does Ibuprofen contaminated sediment, incubated overtime, hav…
ISEF · 2016
Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is a form of a cancer treatment that exposes a photosensitizing drug to a highly specific wavelength of light from a laser. This reaction produces a form of single…
ISEF · 2016
Animal Sciences
Local anesthetics are widely used in a variety of medical procedures. Although they are relatively safe and efficient in managing pain, complications can arise in what is known as local anes…
ISEF · 2016
This experiment focused on determining the effect of water cooling on the efficiency of solar panels. This experiment also analyzed the cost effectiveness of using a municipal water supply t…
ISEF · 2016
An unlined waste pond in Hartsville, SC holds 4 million tons of coal ash. In the 1980s, low-level nuclear waste containing cobalt-60 was added to the pond. In 2014, water below the pond show…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
This project studied the genetic effect of an organophosphate pesticide, Malathion, on a human epithelial cell line. Specifically, what genetic changes result in the Retinoblastoma tumor sup…
ISEF · 2016
Since the US spends over $500 billion on energy annually, scientists try to find a cheaper, cleaner, and renewable source of energy. A great solution can be a microbial fuel cell (MFC), whic…
ISEF · 2016
Phylogenetic trees of evolutionary relationships are vital to understanding evolution. Phylogenetic tree inference involves the construction of a multiple sequence alignment, which itself de…
ISEF · 2016
The goal of this project was to determine the possible application of naringin as a cancer treatment. This particular study used Octamer Transcription Factor 1 Knockout Mouse Embryo Fibrobla…
ISEF · 2016
The importance of this project was to find organic or natural ways to help plants with citrus greening, where there is no known cure. This is a public health problem because citrus greening,…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
It is necessary to understand human haptics because of the explosion of multi-sensory interfaces and growing need for devices that utilize weight perception to decide force required for obje…
ISEF · 2016
Soil microorganisms play an important role in soil fertility. Consequently, by acting on non-target organisms, pesticides can have a negative impact on soil quality. The aim of our research…
ISEF · 2016
Hybridization between C. levisecta and C. hispida may pose a threat to endangered C. levisecta. This study seeks to determine whether flower color can accurately predict genetic history and…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a fatal neurological disease that affects millions of people worldwide. Spermidine, a soybean extract and a polyamine compound found in ribosomes and many natural…
ISEF · 2016
This experiment demonstrated the reproductive and developmental effects of St. John's Wort (SJW) (Hypericum perforatum) on Hydra littoralis. An LC50 of 1 mg/ml of SJW was determined. Two sep…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
This research examines the effect of targeted inhibitors on melanoma tumor immunity. Background: While inhibitors/targeted therapies to driver oncogenes (mutated BRAF and MEK in the MAPK pat…
ISEF · 2016
Blood vessels are the principal means of adequate oxygen and nutrient delivery to every organ in the body. However, numerous proliferative diseases, associated with diabetes or chronic infla…
ISEF · 2016
Algae biofuels have the potential to provide many benefits for the growing world; however, the cost of production is still not economically feasible. The purpose of the project was to determ…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Neogobius melanostomus (round goby) are an invasive species that entered the Great Lakes by ballast water transfer in the 1990's. A crayfish location trapping survey within the St. Louis Riv…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
In recent years, an increasing level of pharmaceuticals has been detected in rivers and streams. The purpose of this experiment was to test the effect of two of the most common drugs found a…