1125 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
1125 projects · showing 901–930
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Surgical site infections, SSI’s, are the leading type of infection in countries with limited resources, affecting up to 2/3 of operated patients with a frequency up to nine times higher than…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The purpose of my project was to attempt to create a device which would make invasive surgery less intrusive by removing the need for much of the physical dissection. I planned to accomplish…
ISEF · 2016
Prostate cancer metastasis to the bone is predominantly lethal and results from the ability of successful metastatic prostate cancer cells to co-opt microenvironmental cells and processes in…
ISEF · 2016
Purpose The purpose of this experiment is to measure the feasibility and rapid prototyping of printing airfoils using a 3D Printer and then to test the airfoils in a wind tunnel to find the…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Individuals affected by ASD are characterized be a marked different in the ability to communicate and form relationships. New technologies for communication and learning have been used to im…
ISEF · 2016
This project addresses the issue of increasing drug resistance of pathogenic bacteria in the post-antibiotic era through mathematical and computational analyses. The analyses were focused on…
ISEF · 2016
Electroencephalogram (EEG) machines are often used to diagnose and monitor seizures, brain abnormalities, and sleep disorders, as well as for biofeedback. Versatile personal EEG machines oft…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the effects of neuroinflammation and microglial activity on the progression of Alzheimer’s and to develop therapeutics with RNA-Interference…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Mosquito control is crucial to fighting diseases, such as zika, malaria, and dengue. Extensive research has been done on chemical-free control, such as the use of sound as a means of mosquit…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The United Nations estimates that 2.5 billion people worldwide are living without access to clean water with over 2 million dying each year from waterborne disease. Continual exposure to unc…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
A developing cancer treatment is photothermal ablation therapy (PTA), which uses the conversion of light to heat to kill cancer cells. Gold nanoparticles support surface plasmons, or waves o…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this project was to was to find the optimal mixture of two enzymes, Cellulase RS and Macerozyme R-10, in order to maximize protoplast yield, viability, and size. Plant protopl…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Space debris emerges as an imminent threat to space vehicles in low earth orbit. Tracking space debris beforehand to alert spacecraft of a threat to maneuver spacecraft away from a collision…
ISEF · 2016
Amphipathic, self-assembly peptides consist of alternating hydrophobic and hydrophilic components. When introduced to water, the peptide self-assembles by burying hydrophobic residues while…
ISEF · 2016
Continued fractions (CFs) provide well established advantages over other numeric representation systems, including greater accuracy, elimination of round-off and truncation errors, and a var…
ISEF · 2016
The research conducted focused on developing a method to perform a semi-quantitative platelet count on abnormal blood smears (Hemaglobinopathy, or sickle cell anemia, and Elevated Mean Plate…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Bacteria small ribonucleic acids (sRNAs) are important cell regulators. Bacterial cells naturally take up nucleic acids in order to better regulate functions. However, bacterial cells that a…
ISEF · 2016
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Efforts like the Human Brain Initiative aim to understand the incredible complexity of our intricate nervous system to solve challenging neurological problems including epilepsy and autism.…
ISEF · 2016
The growth in land development has resulted to a loss of arable land for crop production. The remaining unused marginal lands are low in productivity and can’t be utilized to produce food to…
ISEF · 2016
The objective of this study was to demonstrate the validity of triboluminescence (TL) as a structural health-monitoring characteristic within composite materials. Fiber reinforced composite…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Spotted wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii, is a new fruit fly species that has become a serious threat to fruit crops. Using a prominent and serrated ovipositor, the female SWD pierc…
ISEF · 2016
Heart disease is the number one killer in the world. Every year, 720,000 heart attacks happen in the U.S. Despite medical technology advancing rapidly, medical science lags behind. This is b…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
A growing body of evidence suggests that failures in aminoacyl-tRNA editing lead to perturbation of protein homeostasis, damaging the cellular environment. Studies in human cells lines have…
ISEF · 2016
JQ1 is a drug that is very efficient in killing cancer by blocking the Brd4 signals that tells cancer cells to divide, but the drug is commonly associated with memory loss. Hermit crabs were…
ISEF · 2016
The Concentration Combination: Year III, investigated whether the combination of a spherical luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) and cylindrical solar water heater (SWH) was more efficient…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment is to develop a method to accurately detect mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease using positron electron tomography (PET) scans. Goal 1 is t…
ISEF · 2016
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The researcher believes that if humans are exposed to human attractant pheromones, they will rate people as more attractive and believe each person is more successful. The experiment include…
ISEF · 2016
The goal of this project was to determine the possible application of naringin as a cancer treatment. This particular study used Octamer Transcription Factor 1 Knockout Mouse Embryo Fibrobla…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this scientific study is to determine the levels of Antimony present in bottles containing different beverages after changing the temperature of the liquid. Bottles are often…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
Dietary substances are major contributors to the formation and maintenance of tumors. Caffeine has been shown to inhibit tumor growth in certain cell lines while acetaldehyde, the primary ca…