199 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
199 projects · showing 151–180
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Breast cancer (BC) is the second leading cause of cancer death for women. BC lethality is mainly caused by metastasis. Identification of factors controlling BC metastasis is crucial for deve…
ISEF · 2016
Triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs) are one of the most aggressive subtypes of breast cancer. They have a higher concentration of cancer stem cells, which leads to chemoresistance and a l…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Huanglongbing (HLB) disease causes worldwide losses in citrus industry worth billions of dollars every year. The causative bacteria of HLB, Candidatus Liberbacter is transmitted by the Asian…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
I used recycled food from the my school's cafeteria to design a food supplement for dogs housed in a kennel and adoption facility. My veterinarian agreed that my plan would have no negative…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Allicin is a component in garlic that forms when garlic is chopped. Research has shown that allicin is capable of killing several types of cancer cells, but the mechanism remains unclear. To…
ISEF · 2016
Audio steganography is the embedding of data into an audio file. Current research in audio steganography has only shown that audio and image files can be used as the embedded media. For this…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Electric and hybrid electric vehicles are the state of the art in the automotive industry because they increase efficiency and reduce the negative environmental impacts of burning fossil fue…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The purpose of this project was to build muffler that serves two purposes; attenuating exhaust noise and increasing performance. Computational fluid dynamics software was used to create mode…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Research and development on new forms of construction are important to the growth of infrastructure and manufacturing. Finding new materials that can not only be more cost effective than com…
ISEF · 2016
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project involved the analysis of the otoliths and scales of red snapper. Extracting these otoliths are lethal. Extracting scales is nonlethal. This project will not only benefit further…
ISEF · 2016
Wearable electronics are finding new applications in everyday life. Future adoption of wearable electronics into applications such as medical diagnostics, identity protection, and asset situ…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Many outdoor extremists encounter loss of power for lighting, navigation, and communication devices in times of demand. Small problems soon escalate to major issues in absence of these techn…
ISEF · 2016
“Natural herbs,” “oil treatments,” “earthly remedies”: all of these things are the hype of today’s medical world. Everyone wants to steer clear of all of the “unnatural” things and “go green…
ISEF · 2016
Due to the human dependency and current depletion of petroleum, scientists are searching for more environmentally friendly sources to create feedstock chemicals which are then turned into va…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study involved the fabrication and characterization of copper substrates treated with six different self-assembling monolayers following electroless galvanic deposition of silver. The s…
ISEF · 2016
The goal of this project was to create a standing acoustic wave at a high frequency in order to suspend small, lightweight object, such as Styrofoam, in midair. To do this the student was gi…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Electronics is being widely used in cars. Applications include – lane departure warning systems, collision avoidance systems, antilock braking systems, and adaptive cruise control. Electric…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment is to determine which decaying food produced the most landfill gas. The hypothesis of this experiment was that decaying dairy products produced more landfill g…
ISEF · 2015
Ocean Acidification (OA) is caused by the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere due to industrialization. CO2 dissolves in the oceans to form carbonic acid. Carbonic acid dissoc…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
As battery cells age, their capacities diverge, which causes problems in large series connected packs such as those found in electric vehicles. Cells that develop larger or smaller capacitie…
ISEF · 2015
Transverse tilt-wing design has currently not been experimented within the nano class of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and has applications in defense, wildlife conservation, crop agriculture, se…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States. In this project, gold and silver nanoparticles were tested for skin cancer chemoprevention and therapy. Results indica…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Around the world, electrical energy isn't always easy to obtain. In many developing countries, common electrical energy is close to nonexistent. While there are not as many large cities and…
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
Growth patterns and growth rates of tumors are irregular when compared to those of standard tissue, resulting in obstacles that affect anti-cancer chemotherapy. Consequently, both the expend…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Across the world, the leading cause of death is cardiovascular disease. An underlying cause of many cardiovascular diseases is atherosclerosis, which occurs when plaque builds up in the vasc…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Though accurate, current cancer diagnostic methods are time-consuming, expensive, disease-specific, and qualitative. To improve clinical cancer treatment, a better quantitative system for ea…
ISEF · 2015
Storm water from parking lots, driveways, and gas stations is often contaminated with the aromatic compound benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) that are a fraction of gasoline…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
This project involved the tagging of red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) with a non-activated, acoustic tag internally and externally to determine which method would cause the least amount of str…