Every Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair project Fairfolio holds: 17,565 entries across 13 years, with the abstract, category and awards the fair published for each one.
Counts cover every year of this fair and use its own category labels, exactly as the source published them. Each one links to that category's ISEF projects.
17565 projects · showing 13051–13080
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The negative environmental impacts associated with the reliance on fossil fuels for energy production has led to the growth of nuclear energy; however, nuclear power bears its own risks. Str…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical
Presently, the global energy sector is in transition; there is a common goal to implement more renewable energy (RE) sources and decrease dependence on non-renewable sources/fossil fuels. Ho…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
The project “Repelling What Bugs You” is an extension of a project started in 2015. In that project, an all natural and antiseptic mosquito repellent base was composed by researching and tes…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Second Award
UV light induces damage in DNA, resulting in skin diseases such as cancer for millions of people every year. Alternative DNA repair pathways include base excision repair (BER) and nucleotide…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
Negative thermal expansion(NTE) materials is very important for obtaining near zero thermal expansion(NZTE) materials which could ensure the structural stability and safety reliability of pr…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Third Award
I designed a fall detection device called “ResQ” that automatically detects if a Senior Citizen were to fall down and become unconscious. Upon detection of a fall, the device sends an alert…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The Zika Virus is a disease that has no cure. To date, approximately 100,000 Zika cases have been reported in Brazil in the current epidemic. The disease has been linked to serious neurologi…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Metastasis accounts for ~90% of deaths from breast cancer (BC). This study aims to address the fundamental question of how cancer cells in the primary breast tumor become metastatic. CHD7 is…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Empirical studies have shown that we spend several times more laundry detergents than is actually required for efficient washing, which inflicts a double blow on the environment due to exces…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Title: Reversing high glucose levels through a novel approach: C.elegans as a model for treating diabetes Purpose: To determine which method will best “treat” or reverse the effects of the h…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Can you imagine a world in which all we need to quickly create complex structures is an LED lamp and a short set of parameters to follow? This study focused on the creation of micro-scale st…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
The system of agriculture is inefficient. Agriculture follows the trend of adding artificial fertilizers to increase plant growth. This fertilizer is inadvertently destroying river ecosystem…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Urinary tract infections are one of the most common pediatric infections; however, the national guidelines from the AAP lack indications for treating infants ages 0-60 days. 441 urine cultur…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
If climate change persists, ocean warming and acidification will have catastrophic effects on coral reefs and marine biodiversity in the next 100 years. However, marine and coral biodiversit…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Deaf and hard of hearing children across many parts of the world recount severe problems with their education because of the lack of access to the curriculum via a sign language on the one h…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease affecting millions of people worldwide. PD is characterized by aggregation of alpha-synuclein (a-syn) proteins resulting in tox…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Astrocytes, the most abundant cell type in the central nervous system (CNS), have the vital role of keeping homeostasis in the brain. HIV infects the CNS early after primary infection and ca…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) constitute a class of relatively unstudied RNAs whose function is unknown. Recently, studies have shown that circRNAs are more abundant than previously recorded. The…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Lysyl oxidases are a family of enzymes that oxidize lysine residues, regulating many biological processes including extracellular matrix stabilization. In this project we focused on lysyl ox…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death in females worldwide and shows a 28% increase amongst Saudi females in current statistics. Despite many treatment options, severe relapse s…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Rooibos tea is an extremely beneficial beverage to consumers because it’s rich in minerals, has low tannin contents, and is caffeine free. Rooibos tea also contains a plethora of antioxidant…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
The leaves of Clinacanthus nutans (Sabah Snake Grass) have long been used traditionally in Asia for treatment of skin rashes and snake bites. Staphylococcus aureus affects one in three peopl…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Multicopters have a wide range of applications from surveillance to package delivery and medical support. Although growing in popularity, they are not used yet on an industrial scale for saf…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Fourth Award
In an era of rapid growth in information technology, a significant danger threatens digital security: cyber-attacks. Public-key cryptosystems are used to overcome virtual vulnerabilities. Th…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Since 1998, on average, every ten days a child dies from hyperthermia after parents leave them behind in a car. The goal of this project is to create an infant car carrier that alerts both t…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
In the past 20 years, over 700 children have died from vehicular hyperthermia. Preventative devices currently available on the market have many limitations, and are unable to detect when chi…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Salinity is an emerging threat to sustainable agriculture. This investigation examined the impacts salinity levels have on the growth rates and biomass of potato cultivators, specifically if…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry Third Award
S.A.L.T (SAPONIN ANTI LARVAE TREATMENT) - Biolarvicide from Organic Waste Saponin is a secondary chemical compound found in various plant species. The aim of this project is to produce an in…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Second Award
In the last ten years, twenty five million ash trees have been destroyed by the Emerald Ash Borer; the most destructive invasion by a pest to date. This study looks to save vulnerable ash tr…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Yogyakarta is one of provinces in Indonesia having high potential to be affected by natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, floods, landslides and strong winds. On…