237 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
237 projects · showing 121–150
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Daphnia magna is an invertebrate water flea species that lives in freshwater and brackish water and is commonly found on the United States’ northeastern coasts. The purpose of this experimen…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The investigation aimed to determine how introducing micro-plastics into the habitat of brine shrimp affected their life processes. The hypothesis was that the brine shrimp would confuse mic…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
Background: Insulin is the life-essential treatment for patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus, and it can be for Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Yet, a reported 33% of families with children with…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is one of the most prevalent dominantly inherited diseases. It occurs in approximately 1 in 3000 people. NF1 encodes a tumor suppressor whose functional loss r…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States because it’s five-year survival rate is 8.9%. This occurs because of late diagnosis which is affiliate…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Initially, solar cells were made from silicon, but it was very expensive to get. Later on, scientists created dye-sensitized solar cells using ruthenium dye which was a pollutant and it was…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Imagine living in a world where nothing is ever truly clean. A world where diseases and pathogens are basically immortal. Endospores are a bacterial defense mechanism where “stressed '' bact…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of the experiment is to test the effects Sulforaphane has on bacterial growth. If Sulforaphane causes ring of inhibition on a bacterial plate, then Sulforaphane does have an effe…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Neonicotinoids are a family of insecticides that have gained worldwide popularity. By 2009, the global Neonicotinoid market was worth $2.63 billion. Recently, their usage has come under ques…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
In recent years social media has evolved from something that helps you keep in touch with relatives or friends to a driving influencer of all parts of life, politics included. Since its firs…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
Vitamins have long been said to aid the body in fighting the worst of infections; by measuring agglutination patterns, the efficacy of vitamins can be observed and quantified. Using Salmonel…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this project is to test if Glycine max, Zea mays, and Pisum sativum can withstand a flood for a longer duration with the addition of Oscillatoria in a field test experiment. I…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
The global plastic production increases every year. In 2015, the worldwide plastic production was 322 million metric tons, an amount that will eventually be converted to waste. Due to lack o…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Glioblastoma is a brain cancer that is resistant to treatment due to the migration of individual glioblastoma cells throughout the brain. This study measured the effect of NE-100, a sigma-1…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
The morphology of the active layer in organic solar cells is critical to performance. By studying the photovoltaic properties of organic solar cell’s microstructure, it is possible to increa…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
The purpose is to better understand the relationships that arise between corn plants and their mycorrhizal symbionts in order to pursue agricultural applications of mycorrhizal fungi. The hy…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Collective motion is a phenomenon of ordered motion that attracts much scientific interest because of its presence in a wide variety of applications such as the flocking behavior of birds or…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Alzheimer’s is a progressive neurological disorder that affects memory and is the third leading cause of death. Downregulation of apolipoprotein E (ApoE) gene is involved in late-onset Alzhe…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
While antibiotics have been used for decades to treat bacterial infections, the use of bacteriophages in the medical setting provides a potential for new treatments in an era of growing anti…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
In the U.S., catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are responsible for 449,334 diagnoses/yearly, 13,000 deaths/yearly, and medical expenses of over $450 million/yearly. The c…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
SAVIUTS (Sensory Aid for the Visually Impaired Using Time-of-flight Sensors) is a sensory aid device that has the potential of impacting millions of lives around the world. Traditional visua…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
The reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) to energy rich molecules can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and aid in limiting CO2 levels in the atmosphere. One aspect of these efforts involve…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Glioblastoma multiforme is the most aggressive form of brain cancer (<5% of people diagnosed survive for longer than 5 years), with no specific treatment or prevention. For many types of can…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Children with vocal, visual, or auditory deficits are constantly faced with communication barriers. They can show signs of frustration and aggression because of their limited connection to t…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
In the U.S., catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are attributed to 49,334 CAUTIs/year, 13,000 deaths/year, and sum expenses of over $340 million/year. The objective of this…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences First Award
The purpose of the project was to determine an alternative to synthetic pesticides. It was hypothesized that Armadillidium would not survive in the presence of T. harzianum. Phase I included…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Arsenic, “king of poisons,” threatens public health on an unprecedented scale with over 140 million people in 50 countries drinking water contaminated with arsenic at levels above the EPA/WH…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In 2017, Silver et al. designed a reinforcement learning algorithm that learned tabula rasa without any human-generated data. They applied this algorithm to the games of Go, Chess, and Shogi…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
When purchasing a car, consumers must select what type of fuel they want to use in the car. The ability to use one engine that could run on multiple fuel types would allow consumers to choos…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Exposure to organic environmental contaminants in water supplies can lead to adverse health effects. Non-thermal plasmas have been proposed for waste-water treatment as a means to degrade or…