767 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
767 projects · showing 331–360
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Diversity generating retroelements (DGRs) are genetic elements that promote hyper mutations in specific regions of the genome. The targeted mutations of DGRs allow positive traits to manifes…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Context: There are currently about 82.3 million COVID-19 cases worldwide with 24% of these cases being severe and a 2% mortality rate due to late medical attention. COVID patients have commo…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Earthquakes are a major global risk, causing the most fatalities among all natural disasters, as well as significant amount of injuries, displacements, and economic losses. While there has b…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This study aims to develop a network for prominent chronic illnesses and neurodegenerative diseases, factoring in preexisting conditions, lifestyle decisions, and an individual’s environment…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
After losing my grandfather to COPD, I was determined to develop an accessible method for diagnosis of chronic respiratory illnesses. The objective of my project was to design and create a h…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over the last few years, devastating fires in California have destroyed habitats, released toxic fumes, and caused extreme heat. The megafires of 2020 burned 4.5 million acres, straining fir…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics in the environment are a source of emerging pollution with proposed negative impacts across all ecosystems. Plastic preproduction pellets called nurdles are a form of microplas…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Out of the 7.8 billion people on Earth today, over 1.3 billion of them suffer from a neurological condition, out of which over 450 million of them do not get their condition diagnosed or tre…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
People’s feelings are often reflected in the way they write. For this project, texts were used to characterize the emotional state of people both throughout the decades and in different part…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Fourth Award
SARS-CoV-2 is the virus behind the Coronavirus pandemic, contributing to over one million deaths and forty million infections. Forms of COVID-19 prevention are of immediate concern. This stu…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Indeed, PD cases are rapidly rising, especially in underdeveloped areas that don’t have ready access to therapeutic car…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects one in fifty-four individuals born in the US. ASD hinders one’s ability to recognize emotions, causing difficulti…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
As climate change progresses, we must think of new ways to combat this threat. Thermoelectric energy generation, a lesser-known renewable energy source, has the potential of harvesting major…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
High cost, proprietary parts, complex manufacturing techniques, and transport issues limited our ability to produce enough ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of my project wa…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics First Award
Motivation: Many applications in the medical and engineering fields benefit from identifying topological features in a three-dimensional geometric model. Problem statement: When an object’s…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
This study investigates the use of rescue device structures made with inspiration from origami as a viable replacement for modern day debris lifting rescue devices. The structure studied as…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Scoliosis is a condition of abnormal spinal curvature with approximately 60,000 U.S. pediatric patients undergoing surgery or being placed into braces each year. Skeletal maturity assessment…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is the sudden onset of kidney damage in which the kidneys cannot filter waste from the blood, requiring emergency hospitalization. AKI patient mortality rate is hig…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cancer is a leading cause of human death worldwide, yet quick and accurate identification of the primary cancer site is still lacking. Owing to its ability to differentiate similar tumors an…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Overwatering and underwatering are widespread issues with environmental, financial, and safety consequences. Current approaches to assessing grass water use efficiency (WUE) are inaccessible…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
Mosquitoes are small and deadly pests. They transmit various diseases, causing over 700,000 human deaths annually, making mosquito control essential. A novel mosquito trap, the In2Care trap,…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Currently, 1.5 billion people worldwide suffer from some level of hearing loss. However, only 17% of those who would benefit greatly from using a hearing aid use one. Hearing aids can cost a…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Early detection and treatment of colorectal cancer is vital to prevent metastasis, but past models lack a cohesive pipeline from diagnosis to treatment to determine biomarkers and suggest tr…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Second Award
Current Cancer Diagnostic methods are inaccurate and time-consuming with invasive procedures, mostly resulting in late-stage detection. In contrast, we have strong evidence that treating can…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Second Award
It is a basic question in contact geometry to classify all non-isotopic tight contact structures on a given 3-manifold. If the manifold has a boundary, this classification is based on the di…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
COVID-19 has infected over 114 million people as of March 1, 2021, pushing the world towards social and economic collapse. With cases rising rapidly and the current gold-standard for diagnos…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated plastic pollution with the rise in PPE and single-use plastic consumption amplifying our plastic dependence and adding more plastic to our oversaturated…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems Third Award
Today’s world of 5G and IOT devices means increasingly crowded frequency spectrums with multiple devices talking on the same frequency at the same time. To gain an advantage, it is becoming…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) result in 13,000 deaths in the US annually. The Foley catheter design promotes biofilm formation - the underlying cause of CAUTIs. In Ph…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Arsenic, a WHO-classified carcinogen and neurotoxin, has gained widespread notoriety, potentially affecting 250+ million globally. Current arsenic detection methods require frequent sampling…