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ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Pathogenic fungi of the Candida genus, including C. albicans, pose an increasing threat to global health. Almost all Candida species belong to the CTG clade, which deviates from the common g…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
The growing field of materials sciences and more specifically stimuli-responsive materials in the past decades has led to the development of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), first introduce…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Fossil fuel combustion releases vast amounts of CO2, contributing to over 8 million premature deaths annually, more than those caused by smoking, by intensifying respiratory illnesses, heart…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
While climate change's environmental impacts are well recognized, its humanitarian impacts depend on complex interactions between climate and population factors. This study simulated land-us…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Flooding is a significant issue in urban environments, causing widespread damage and disruption. Existing solutions lack integration, often addressing isolated aspects, such as detection or…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
CO2 emissions are a critical global concern, particularly in urban and industrialized regions. Effective tracking of CO2 plumes is essential for understanding climate impacts and managing ai…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Global pest infestations cause over 220 billion in crop losses and approximately 700,000 human deaths each year. Traditional pesticides not only harm human health and the environment but als…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Deep-sea octocorals are critical ecosystem engineers that form biodiversity-rich habitats and support commercially and pharmaceutically valuable species, yet remain understudied and increasi…
ISEF · 2025
Technology Enhances the Arts
The application of modern technologies is essential for preserving and revitalizing Don ca tai tu, a UNESCO-recognized Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, increasingly overshadowed by…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry
Infertility affects over 186 million people globally and is mechanistically linked to oxidative stress-induced mitochondriopathy, genomic instability, and chronic inflammation. These patholo…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
AI image generation models can now create and augment photographs at scale. Recent reports predict that AI-assisted misinformation will rank above warfare and natural disasters as the greate…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Over 250 million visually impaired individuals face significant challenges in navigation, limiting mobility and independence. Traditional aids like white canes and guide dogs offer minimal e…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) poses a considerable challenge to improving the public's health worldwide. It usually induces a high requirement for personalized treatment…
ISEF · 2025
Embedded Systems
Benzene exposure is linked to 40% of leukemia cases, making its detection at trace levels critical for public and environmental health. Existing sensors face limitations in sensitivity, sele…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Sorafenib, a targeted anticancer therapy, is used in the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma by inhibiting vascular endothelial growth factor receptors (VEGFRs) and tyrosine kinases (…
ISEF · 2025
Technology Enhances the Arts
Over 5% of the world's population - or 430 million people - require rehabilitation to address their disabling hearing loss. At a personal level, my younger brother has severe difficulties wi…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Liposarcoma (LPS) is a form of cancer derived from fat tissue. Despite the fact that the 5 year survival rate for LPS patients with metastasis is only 15%, treatment for LPS hasn’t been adva…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Preliminary data shows that cigarette smoke is associated with gene expression changes in whole blood and skin. However, little is known about the epigenetic and genetic response to smoking…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The Body Mass Index carries gender and ethnic bias that will endanger the future of AI diagnosis. The BMI overlooks that people can have the same BMI yet have vastly different body compositi…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Climate change and global warming are ongoing issues that impact all ecosystems. They cause many environmental problems like acid rain, habitat degradation, and species range shifts. This ca…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Intracranial aneurysms (IAs) are a vascular disorder characterized by the bulging of weakened cerebral blood vessel walls. Affecting 166 million people globally, IAs pose a serious risk due…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Intersubjective realities refer to the belief systems that when accepted by two or more people have real implications for objective reality. The Covid-19 Pandemic was dominated by the emerge…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
The purpose of this project was to see how light propagation has an effect on fiber optic cables. The procedures that were used to make this experiment as safe as possible were using a singl…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
The rise of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria presents an escalating challenge to traditional antibiotics, causing the exploration of alternative therapeutic strategies. A key mechanism of…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this project that will be tested in this research will be to see if the two half doses injections of 0.55cc of Oxytetracycline (OTC), an antibacterial agent, will reduce bark…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) is a gammaherpesvirus infecting 90% of adults, and is associated with various diseases, including infectious mononucleosis, Hodgkin lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma, and N…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry
This project's aim was to identify the optimal pH (slightly acidic to neutral pH range: pH 5-pH7) at which the enzyme papain works efficiently in the digestion of the different protein subst…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
This experiment investigated the characteristics of the decoherence of qubits in photonic quantum computers and the effects of decoherence on the superimposed state of the qubit. Three diffe…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the world’s leading cause of dementia in older populations, impacting more than 6 million individuals in the U.S. alone. Although FDA approved treatment has been…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Climate changes that include ocean acidification and global warming are serious problems in the ecosystem, affecting marine phytoplankton, including Nannochloropsis oceanica. In the effort t…