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ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With over 11 percent of people over the age of 65 developing this detrimental disease and being in the top 10 most common chronic conditions for adults over 65, Alzheimer's disease is a detr…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
Nature has already perfected flight in the form of birds. One especially critical yet often overlooked aspect of avian flight is the highly nimble and drag-reducing aerodynamics of the avian…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Staphylococcus aureus bacteria is the world’s leading cause of bone implant infection causing osteomyelitis. Osteomyelitis accounts for half of all chronic diseases in people over 50 and thi…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Wound assessment is a critical aspect of wound treatment, as the healing progress of a wound determines the optimal approach to care. However, the heterogeneity of burn wounds often complica…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Prescription opioid addiction is a national health crisis. Today, patients or physicians don't have a way of diagnosing if a relief painkiller causes addiction. Current approaches for diagno…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Autophagy is a “self-eating” cellular pathway. It is a core molecular mechanism for cellular and organismal homeostasis and is also a pro-longevity mechanism. Autophagy dysfunction links the…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Eutrophication, an excess of nitrates and phosphates in water primarily caused by fertilizer runoff, is the leading cause of cyanobacteria epidemics and marine life deaths. Previous studies…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
Acute, chronic, and surgical wounds affect millions of people with unmet critical needs. There is no effective way to stop traumatic wound bleeding and suturing involves a risk of infection.…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that affects 23 million people worldwide. It is a clinically heterogeneous disorder characterized by the attack of inflammator…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Background: Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally. The heterogeneous nature of cancers with multiple subtypes makes them challenging to treat. We hypothesized that a computati…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
Extracting patient symptoms from electronic health records (EHRs) is a daily task that physicians face with each patient. Physicians nowadays experience increased burnout due to the rising n…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
Pipes that have tight structures can often be found in our daily lives but are difficult for human inspection and reparation. Therefore, the solution of using pipe-climbing robots is a more…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Cancer and cranial diseases are the second leading cause of death worldwide. Early diagnosis and well-guided medical care as well as accurate analysis are essential to improve patient life e…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
As bipolar I disorder (BD-I) is characterized by manic, mixed, and depressive episodes, polypharmacy—combining 2 or more medications simultaneously—is common for BD-I psychiatric treatment t…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Older mangroves in the inner mangroves areas have been perishing at an increased rate and cannot be accessed for restore due to the dense roots of plants, resulting in a decrease in the inne…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems
Salmon, tuna, shrimp, and almost all other seafood have been shown to contain variable amounts of mercury. The release of mercury into the environment has adverse effects on humans and aquat…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Glioblastoma (GBM) is an incurable brain tumor whose poor patient outcomes have seen little improvement over the past 30 years, possibly due to a lack of effective prognostic tools (Ostrom e…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Wind turbines, which are one of the main elements of sustainable energy sources, are not produced in a sustainable way. The production of materials used as reinforcement material in the wind…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI) are prevalent in society, EphA4 is a gene that inhibits axon regeneration following development and is known to decrease neural plasticity during rehabilitation. R…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Purpose: To create a machine learning model that could identify drugs that could be effective against Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. Procedure: The Assay Central TB dataset was acquired…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Microplastic pollution due to inadequate water treatment has become an emerging issue, posing a global threat to marine life. Effective and eco-friendly removal solutions are urgently requir…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Alien invasive species (AIS) cause habitat destruction, lower crop productivity, climate change, and significant losses in global biodiversity. Global efforts to control rapid expansion of A…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) result in more than 100,000 fatalities and cost more than $35 billion annually in the USA alone. More than 50% of HAIs can be prevented by following prope…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Farms around the world currently account for 70% of all water consumed annually. However, increasing municipal and industrial demands for water means there is less water allocated for agricu…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Secondhand smokers (SHS) experience severe cardiovascular diseases and respiratory disorders that often increase their death rates to about 1.2 million premature deaths annually due to inhal…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
According to the WHO, cancer resulted in 10 million deaths in 2020, a leading cause of death, and studies show that on average any particular class of drugs is ineffective for 75% of all pat…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Because we have used fossil fuels as our primary fuel source, CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rising and pose serious environmental challenges. Helium-3 may serve as a clean energy resource…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Progress within many modern scientific fields has increasingly relied on the continued advancement of computational power. However, thermodynamic and physical limits associated with electron…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
As the prevalence of obesity and other chronic diseases continue to increase, so do the cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Despite the development of new treatments, HCC remains diffic…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
The myoprosthesis developed in this research is a novel prototype to enable complete biomimetic performance in a bionic hand, accurately implementing gesture extraction and a soft polyarticu…