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 15541–15570
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimers Disease is a neurodegenerative disease resulting in loss of brain function and memory, caused by the build-up of Amyloid-beta (Abeta) protein plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Background: Mesenchymal stem cells secrete anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial products. Cystic Fibrosis is a disease that results in infection with P. aeruginosa (PA) S. pneumoniae (ST) or…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Hydrogels can be injected into localized surface tumors for the consistent release of anti-cancer drugs over a specific period of time. This project used metal-free “click” chemistry to deve…
ISEF · 2015
This study examines water quality and biota in Birds Creek to determine if levels decrease as the stream flows past a solid waste transfer station. Data collection Site #1 was 1600 meters up…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Clown fish (an anemone fish) Amphiprion ocellaris symbiotically lives among tentacles of sea anemone Stichodactyla gigantean without suffering any attacks of nematocyst discharge from the se…
ISEF · 2015
Microbeads are added to personal care products such as body scrubs to aid in the exfoliation of skin and to toothpastes as an abrasive. They do not break down readily in the environment ther…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a chronic disease brought about by metabolic events such as insulin resistance and the progressive dysfunction of insulin-secreting beta cells. Recently, both inflam…
ISEF · 2015
Alzheimer’s disease is primarily caused by the misfolding and aggregation tau and amyloid-ß proteins interactions causing reduced neuronal function in over five million people in the United…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Colorectal cancer arises from genetic aberrancies classified as driver mutations, which actively promote disease progression, and passenger mutations that provide no evident selective growth…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Varroa mites (Varroa destructor) have caused significant impacts on honey bees (Apis mellifera) in the United States through by introducing a new series of pathogens. The purpose of this res…
ISEF · 2015
In the past 80 years, Louisiana has lost over one-million acres in land, affecting plants and crustaceans that live in these environments. The first objective of this research was to determi…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This research sought to address the toxicity of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) when released into the environment through the addition of nontoxic surfactants and the novel method of surface functi…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Mitochondria are the "energy factories" of the cell. Their main function is ATP production, and they are normally thumb-shaped with lamellar cristae. Mitochondrial morphology regulates apopt…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
In this research, we have introduced and analyzed a new method of creating a large-scale network for monitoring the radiation background in big cities. The project is based on integration of…
ISEF · 2015
Introduction: In the last year the value of the online transactions increased to 2356 millions of dollars. The most part of these transactions was made using mobile gadgets. 45% of the gadge…
ISEF · 2015
The logician Patrick Blackburn proposed several times to consider modal formulas as automata that are placed at some point inside a relational model and explore their environment by making t…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Extreme losses in summer Arctic sea ice pack, a leading indicator of climate change, have led to the need for significant revisions of global climate models. Part of the efforts to improve t…
ISEF · 2015
Natural gas currently supplies 22% of the energy that the United States consumes annually. As other supplies run low, there is a need to dig deeper in order to access a different resource ca…
ISEF · 2015
Status quo methods of autism diagnosis are subjective and varied. This can result in misdiagnosis as well as leave patients with the disorder undiagnosed for long periods of time. The goal o…
ISEF · 2015
The recent Ebola virus (EBOV) epidemic has claimed over 4000 lives in West Africa. The fatal virus suppresses the host’s immune response by inhibiting IFN?-dependent p-STAT1 nuclear import b…
ISEF · 2015
Animal Sciences
Current trends indicate a distressing worldwide decline in honeybees with disease/pests, pesticides and sub-optimal nutrition likely offenders. Optimal energy metabolism may support colony h…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Chronic inflammation contributes to the pathogenesis of seven of the ten leading causes of mortality in the U.S. However, current anti-inflammatory drugs are oftentimes ineffective and/or cy…
ISEF · 2015
Downy mildews are a serious disease of many crops in coastal California. In spinach, downy mildew is caused by the plant pathogenic microorganism Peronospora effusa. In California, where nea…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Due to a growing number of patients diagnosed with cancer, constantly increasing resistance of cancer cells to the current chemotherapeutics such as cisplatin and large amount of adverse eff…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The complex hormonal mechanisms of the autonomic nervous system provide the physiological conditions necessary to cope with a sudden crisis or emergency. Chronically stressful conditions cau…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Our project focuses on developing a tool that supports paralyzed patients and patients with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) We aim to enable patients to use the eyes as a means to commun…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The United States spends $300 billion dollars a year on health care. Health care resources need to be prudently managed. Over 600,000 hysterectomies are done yearly. The cost of a hysterecto…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the effects of an inflammation response on the synthesis of transcription factor CREB in MAPT gene regulation and hyper-phosphorylation of t…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the impacts of an ocean oil spill and of possible recovery efforts on marine flora. Two redox titration experiments were undertaken during th…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Unhealthy diets are one of the leading causes of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) which lead to 16 million premature deaths annually; maternal and childhood malnutrition alone is responsible…