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ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Why is water a limited resource? High water demand requires greater time to filter the water for return to the environment. Pollution limits freshwater filtration. Many aquatic plants filter…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This investigation focuses on how discoveries can be integrated into the advancement of technologies. Broken up into the main four areas of study within this project, it will illustrate how…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
With the new variant on the rise, and trauma with Covid-19, it has been ever more harder to communicate with the people we love as well as our peers. Whether you have Covid-19 and have to qu…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software Second Award
Retinal prostheses provide a promising solution to restore vision to the 200 million people who suffer from retinal degenerative diseases worldwide. However, current FDA-approved implants ar…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
This research presents ARIEL, a deep-learning method for predicting COVID-19 variants and designing therapeutics to neutralize them. ARIEL is the first framework to simultaneously address th…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Limited hand movement caused by paralysis can significantly decrease quality of life for stroke patients. Wearable robotic hand orthoses are able to provide everyday assistance and rehabilit…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Electric motors are essential to modern-day life, safe operation of the electric motor is therefore vital to their operators. Studies on the fault of the electric motor, diagnosis accurately…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
More than 190 countries worldwide work together peacefully to gather crucial weather information. Every day, several thousand weather balloons are launched. They burst after a few hours and…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Arsenic is a prevalent existing environmental toxin and also a human carcinogen. Recently, mushrooms were found to have unique properties that allowed them to metabolize arsenic into a compl…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive brain tumor that claims around 200,000 people each year. Glioblastoma patients have a median survival of less than 4 months when left untreated. To extend…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Second Award
E-Waste makes up 70% of all toxic waste. The abundance of heavy metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium entering landfills leach our soil, groundwater, and atmosphere to horrific ends, yet…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
Secret sharing refers to a class of protocols for splitting a given secret into several shares and distributing them to a group of participants, who can later reconstruct the secret. All the…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Due to the New Horizons mission, a lot of questions have risen about Pluto. This project aimed to simulate the process of elements condensing back onto its surface as it revolves away from t…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology Fourth Award
Algae has shown promise in multiple industries. Recent investigations explore its use in aerospace photobioreactors to produce oxygen and water, remove carbon dioxide, and act as a food sour…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Agricultural and horticultural crops evolve through competing against herbaceous plants, aka. weeds, with the help of herbicide. Finding an environment-friendly alternative has been a challe…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The advent of space telescopes such as TESS and Kepler has led to transit photometry becoming the most prolific method for finding exoplanets. However, it tends to have a bias towards short…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Purpose: Rivers can be contaminated by sewage, industrial runoff, and other pollutants. Most of these water sources can be polluted with different hazardous toxins and pathogenic organisms.…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
A microplastic is a plastic that is the size of 5 millimeters or less. They are pervasive pollutants that are being identified in the environments and organisms throughout the world, however…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This paper reveals numerous psychological mechanisms and correlations that are relevant in the sphere of race and wellbeing, and thus relevant to all people because of the inevitable effects…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Tinnitus is the perception of sound that has no source outside of the head and, as presently understood, lacks any universally accepted quantifiability. Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) oft…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Population mobility is correlated with Covid-19 transmission, making it an ideal indicator for forecasting future outbreaks. Additionally, given the proliferation of vaccines throughout the…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Humans have propelled Earth into its sixth mass extinction, wiping out hundreds of species and pushing hundreds more to the brink. To repopulate the at-risk, legislation, such as the U.S End…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The APOE3 allele, the most common APOE variant, is believed to influence Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) progression. It has been proposed that the TOMM40 gene – which neighbors APOE3 -- might serv…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Activating mutations of JAK2V617F are present in the majority of patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), diseases that are at significant risk of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) tran…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
In order to combat the mounting antibiotic-resistance epidemic, the purpose of this study is to test alternative antimicrobial substances for potential treatment of Staphylococcus epidermidi…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a group of diseases that affect kidney function. Recently, a growing number of people suffering from it have been detected in regions of Central America, with…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Drosophila melanogaster is an established model to study neurodegenerative diseases. During the early years of treatment, most patients with neurological disorders have a seamless response t…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, affects approximately 5.8 million Americans aged 65 or older. AD causes brain atrophy and memory loss due to buildup of ß-amyloid…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
Purpose Asthma is a disorder that causes the trachea to shorten. During asthma attacks, it causes breathing difficulties, coughing, and even death. Asthma attacks are normally triggered by s…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Water pollution has worsened due to thoughtless treatment of expired medication, causing problems such as neutralization and abnormal behavior of fish, and we found solution in fish to solve…