20,037 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS and the Calgary Youth Science Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Peak acceleration has been used in many studies to explore Football helmet safety. In this experiment, a linear drop test from 152 cm (6 feet) was performed in the NOCSAE (National Operating…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Asthma, a chronic inflammatory disorder of the lung, is associated with airway remodeling and hyper-responsiveness. T cells play a key role in regulating inflammatory responses in asthma. Th…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Leptomeningeal dissemination (LMD) is the metastatic spread of tumor cells from the brain to spinal chord. LMD is a characteristic of and the most fatal step in the pediatric brain tumor med…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of investigating the biomarker of bladder cancer is to see if there's mutation in the biomarkers' regions since the same biomarker region of angiogenin from ALS was found to be m…
ISEF · 2015
Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodites seed stem cells of their germlines to reproduce. The proliferation of these stem cells is controlled in a large part by the FBF genes (fbf-1 and fbf-2).…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
In several instances, industrialization has led to increased contamination of agricultural fields with cytotoxic level of heavy metals. In seeded plants, the ZIP (ZRT- IRT-like Protein) fami…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a severe complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in which donor T cells attack host tissues. Immunosuppressant…
ISEF · 2015
The tragic deaths of 19 Arizona firefighters in 2013 reminds us that firefighters are regularly exposed to extreme temperatures and hazardous conditions. Current protective apparel, however,…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Autophagy is implicated in the pathogenesis of Huntington’s disease (HD), a fatal neurodegenerative disorder, and is unproductive in HD cells. This research focused on understanding cellular…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects millions of young adults worldwide. The disease is caused by the immune system mistakenly attacking the central nervous system (CNS), which consists of the br…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Type-2 diabetes results when insulin producing beta-cells cannot compensate for rising insulin resistance. Diabetic pathologies may ensue including retinopathies. Current treatments show adv…
ISEF · 2015
With growing dependence of technology in the world, the importance of finding an effective source of renewable energy to replace harmful fossil fuels has been a mission for solar researchers…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
One significant problem with fuel cells is that they are costly to construct because of the expensive platinum catalyst. Palladium has similar chemical properties to platinum and is approxim…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical substances used to control pests in agricultural fields cause serious problems in public health, pesticides have been associated with severe allergies, cancer, neurological damage,…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Mikania micrantha is one of the worst invasive alien species in the world. This exotic noxious weed is a perennial creeping climber grows vigorously in East Asia and US (especially Florida),…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this research project was to determine if academic performance in primary grades was an indicator of academic performance in high school. It was hypothesized that students’ ac…
ISEF · 2015
Klebsiella pneumoniae are optionally anaerobic gram-negative bacteria which cause a lot of virulent diseases in people with poor immunity. Existence of capsular polysaccharides(CPS) and anti…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment was to understand and determine whether single use lithium batteries had operational restrictions that could cause them to be dangerous in use. The batteries w…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project is to investigate whether or not Haloarchaea can survive exposure to UV light by an intracellular mechanism involving manganese (Mn) or Mn complexes. The hypothes…
ISEF · 2015
Staphylococcus aureus is the most dangerous of all common staphylococcal bacteria and, to make matters worse, the treatment of its numerous infections is becoming increasingly difficult. In…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
There is a clear lack of a systematic method to develop ligands for scientific and industrial applications in drug delivery, nanomaterial engineering, disease treatment and solar energy. By…
ISEF · 2015
As we become more industrialized, the concern about environmental contamination keeps increasing, so we need natural and cost effective ways to address this issue. Plants utilize photosynthe…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Stress in our society is a problem that affects almost everyone. This investigation sought to discover whether high perceived stress levels are related to lower prefrontal cortex functioning…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
The purpose of this research was to determine if flap arrangement on a hydropower turbine would change the efficiency of the turbine. The reason this experiment is important to the public is…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Multiple medical studies have been completed regarding the speculation of if the relationship between vascular flow and the brain have a direct association with the brain’s neurologic activi…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
The principle of the flow cytometry method relies on the fact that X-bearing (female) sperm contains 3.8 percent more DNA than Y-bearing (male) sperm. Flow cytometry was the only method acce…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths in the world, yet many deaths can be avoided if malignant solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs) are detected at an early stage of develo…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This experiment examines the effectiveness of triggers and effects of jamais vu on students in high school by comparing reports of jamais vu. It was predicted that jamais vu would be trigger…
ISEF · 2015
The main purpose of this engineering project is to come up with an innovative typing device useful for both disabled who are constrained with limited arm movements that a standard keyboard r…
ISEF · 2015
Positron emission tomography (PET) is considered the most advanced method of investigating neuroreceptor functionality. Promising radiotracers of PET, namely [11C]OMAR, present high binding…