373 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
373 projects · showing 271–300
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Eye cancer has affected over 500,000 people worldwide in the past decade. Approximately 10% of people with eye cancer will die because it is not diagnosed early enough, causing it to metasta…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
While Machine Learning has made great strides in predictions, less research has been done on the application of AI to the engineering design. The purpose of this research was to test machine…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Amyloids are misfolded proteins that have been correlated with numerous human neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, but the nature of the misfolded structure that leads t…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Substance use disorder is characterized by the chronic use of addictive substances, to the point where substance use is beyond the user’s control. Both genetic and environmental factors dete…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
The Purpose of this experiment was to determine which has more effect on the impulse of a 3-D printed rocket (DeLaval) nozzle, throat radius or exit radius. The total impulse aids in the abi…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
This study of the Jovian system aims to determine the patterns of deviation magnitude produced from the orbital trajectories of the Galilean satellites based on three different parameters: t…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
An effective “catch-all” cure for cancer remains elusive, but one promising target that could be used in such a cure is telomerase because it enables replicative immortality, has near ubiqui…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) affects three million individuals in the United States alone, resulting in approximately $15 billion in healthcare costs annually. T1D results from the autoimm…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Regenerative endodontics aims to combat the critical issue of dental trauma by preserving and maintaining a functional dentin-pulp complex. However, current pulp revascularization methods in…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to characterize human galectin-4 and its anti-microbial properties against self-like antigen bearing gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria while identifyin…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Until the discovery of the CAL-1 cell line, blastic natural killer cell lymphoma (BNKCL), a highly fatal form of leukemia, was an insurmountable obstacle for oncologists. Even with CAL-1, cu…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive type of primary brain tumor. Patients with GBM have a median survival of 15 months. Current treatments for GBM are quite limit…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Exactly half of 2014 bicycle fatalities were at dusk, dawn, or night, according to NHTSA, yet only 20% of bicyclists ride at night. Improvements in overall bicycle visibility through use of…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Almost all organisms on Earth are either directly or indirectly affected by ultraviolet radiation emitted from the sun. For this reason, it is imperative to understand how and to what extent…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Respiratory diseases present a challenge to public health in both industrialized and developing countries due to their frequency, economic impact, severity and projected trends. Additionally…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Antibiotics have been extensively used to treat patients with infectious diseases. As these drugs have been used widely for long time, the organisms the antibiotics are designed to kill have…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
According to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, it is estimated that about 5.1 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease. Signal Peptide Peptidase (SPP) is a membrane protein that is lo…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
To maintain the nuclear integrity of somatic cells that provide the beneficial traits for cloning, tissue culture techniques are used to culture cells in vitro using a growth medium suppleme…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical
Kinetic energy is a readily available source of energy that can be converted into usable forms, such as electricity. In addition to depleting the supply of many nonrenewable resources to com…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This research investigates the correlations between social media presence and social anxiety. The ideal outcome of this research is to be able to identify whether social media usage is a dir…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Due to the constant lead poisoning of civilians around the world, the field of biosorption as a purification method is quickly growing and developing. This process is done using common baker…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
Language is the lens through which humans see the entire world. The purpose of this research project is to observe how the language in which a message is written impacts the time required fo…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
Bok Globules are dense clouds of cold molecular hydrogen gas that are generally associated with larger emission nebulae and young star clusters. I hypothesized that these clouds represent th…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
The main focus for this project is to find a way to treat Staphylococcal skin infections by creating topical antibiotics with iron oxide nanoparticles that will be able to fight bacterial in…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
There is a need for a clinical alternative for the "gold standard" autograft. An autograft involves harvesting tissue from alternate locations in the body and substituting tissue in lacking…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Ultraviolet radiation from the sun can be damaging to the skin, eyes, and immune system and is carcinogenic to humans. Despite heightened skin cancer awareness in recent years, the incidence…
ISEF · 2016
Intracortical electrodes can be utilized by those with severe brain injuries. When they are implanted the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) is breached causing neurodegeneration and inflammatory res…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Bee populations are responsible for the pollination and creation of nearly 70% of agricultural products sold worldwide. Their importance in the continuity of a sustainable biosphere is immen…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The objective of this study is to test electroencephalogram (EEG) segments to determine if a logistic regression classification algorithm can predict epileptic seizures based on the variance…
ISEF · 2016
Network flow optimality on directed graphs is a central topic in graph theory and combinatorics. Given a complete graph G, we investigate the relationship between the score vectors of specia…