295 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
295 projects · showing 241–270
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Polymers that form polymer-DNA complexes (polyplexes) have been established to be safer and more effective -without causing death to harmless cells- than Chemotherapy and viral-mediated tran…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a fatal neurodegenerative disease. This disease involves the degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons and leads to loss of skeletal muscle function, eve…
ISEF · 2016
Every year, 7 million people die around the world due to air pollution related causes, and 4,400 people die every day in China alone. Lung cancer rates have risen 465% in the last 30 years.…
ISEF · 2016
Last year, over 556 million people were victims of cyberattacks, equating to a socioeconomic impact topping $1 trillion. Malicious data breaches pose peril to national security, medical devi…
ISEF · 2016
Styrofoam poses a huge global threat due to its toxicity. Unfortunately, it is accumulating in the environment because it takes thousands of years to decompose. The purpose of this experimen…
ISEF · 2016
Algae biofuels have the potential to provide many benefits for the growing world; however, the cost of production is still not economically feasible. The purpose of the project was to determ…
ISEF · 2016
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic heart disease that affects 1 in 500 people in the United States, resulting in fibrotic hearts. This disease is very difficult to detect and nea…
ISEF · 2016
The problem that faces every mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, automobile manufacturer, airplane designer, and anyone working with engines in general is how to obtain more efficiency.…
ISEF · 2016
Alzheimer`s disease is one of the leading causes of death and affects millions of people worldwide. Since this form of dementia has such a large impact on the human population, it is imperat…
ISEF · 2016
We all know fire can be fought with water, chemicals, and even fire, but could we have ever imagined that sound could fight fire? In my experiment, I set out to create a sonic fire extinguis…
ISEF · 2016
Rural communities across Native American reservations are held back by traditional heating sources like coal and wood. This project serves to provide an alternative heating source for these…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Functional polymers are currently attracting tremendous attention because of their use in diverse polymer applications, such as fuel cell membranes, gas separation, biomaterials, and polymer…
ISEF · 2015
Worldwide access to potable drinking remains of one the “Grand Challenges for Engineering” (National Academy of Engineering). Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) may be a possible solution. MFCs, in…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to develop a low-cost flight safety and location system which transmits salient mechanical data in instance of a in-flight emergency. The 2014 disappearance of…
ISEF · 2015
The importance of clean water is crucial to communities all over the world. Continuing from last year, the research focus for this phase was to design and build a working filter mechanism an…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
This research determined methods for both cell lysis and cell stasis based on simple methods in metabolic engineering. These methods could be useful to maximize the amount of product produce…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite with seropositivity exhibited in 2 billion humans globally. There are three canonical strains of T. gondii which infect the Central Ne…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that leads to severe metabolic deficits. This project investigates the molecular mechanisms of metabolic dysregulatio…
ISEF · 2015
One approach to help visually-impaired individuals is to provide a form of visual information through a different sense. Most of the devices use ultrasonic and image-capturing sensors. These…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Biogenic Mn(II) oxidation holds great potential to reduce the toxicity of soluble mine waste in the environment at low cost. Abandoned mine waste sites, such as those in Arizona, pose a risk…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Corneas are among the most frequently transplanted tissues in the United States, with some 46,000 surgeries performed annually. Unfortunately, they can typically be stored for only 7-10 days…
ISEF · 2015
Bacteriophages have potent abilities in eliminating deadly bacterial infections. Bacteriophage K, a member of the lytic bacteriophage family Myoviridae, is a virus that uses bacteria to repr…
ISEF · 2015
Arsenic and lead contamination of rice and water is a worldwide health crisis with no current solution. Additionally, exposure to these chemicals poses the highest cancer risk ever found. Pr…
ISEF · 2015
I have synthesized the high temperature superconductor YBCO (YBa2Cu3O7) on top of perovskite dielectric BCT (Ba(Cd1/3Ta2/3)O3) using pulsed laser ablation. Growth of this structure has not b…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The smartphone has become our communication device, our wallet, and our personal assistant. It has updated many old technologies, but one that has not benefitted from it is the personal lock…
ISEF · 2015
With large amounts of oil present in our oceans which threatens the existence of sea life, scientists have been trying to find new methods to solve this crisis, and save the environment. Ins…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purposed of this experiment was to see if students performance on copying tasks improved when they were given a break (two minutes for every five minutes). For my experiment I gave 27 th…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The loss of cell to cell adhesion is one of the significant features of cancer. Proteins found in cell junctions, or groups of proteins which helps cells bind to each other, are downregulate…
ISEF · 2015
In this paper, we develop a method for a problem not heavily touched upon by existing mathematical literature: evaluating the constructibility of n-division points by area that can be applie…
ISEF · 2015
Since there are more binary star systems than single star systems that have been observed in the visible universe, the purpose of this experiment is to explore the implications of habitabili…