216 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
216 projects · showing 91–120
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As environmental change has become a more prominent issue in the world, the need for alternative energy sources is ever growing. However, it is apparent that wind turbines are not nearly eff…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality globally, made particularly deadly by asymptomatic metastasis in the early stages of cancer development. A solid understanding of the dyn…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Many modern solar energy systems have adopted a mobility system over an immobile panel, but is it worth the cost, and is it much more efficient than an immobile system? This project tests th…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Adult stem cells are significant candidates in regenerative medicine due to their ability to self-renew and differentiate into multiple specialized cells. Dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) are…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
This year alone, 1 million Americans suffer from Parkinson’s Disease (PD); 5 million from Alzheimer’s (AD); and 400,000 from Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Neurodegenerative diseases affect the ne…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a worldwide public health crisis with the potential of mass casualties due to the overuse of antibiotics. This experiment was conducted to investigate what…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
The recent characterization of the natural product Pannokin D (a novel benzoxanthone-type diprenylated flavonoid with cytotoxic activity and the rare biochemical capability of overcoming TRA…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study will help determine whether certain socio-economic factors emerge as common threads between patients dropping out of substance abuse treatment, which would help healthcare provide…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an auto immune disease driven by auto antibodies that target insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas. Currently there are no prevention methods for T1D. However…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is a deadly blood cancer in which abnormal blast cells crowd out healthy blood cells in bone marrow. Although AML is the most common adult leukemia, its survival…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the most produced plastic globally, composing single-use plastic bottles, shopping bags, and more. Consequently, the environment suffers from its producti…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a debilitating illness, and antidepressant treatment often yields inadequate response rates. It is not currently understood why antidepressant response rat…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a worldwide public health crisis with the potential of mass casualties due to the overuse of antibiotics. This experiment was conducted to investigate what…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Traditional views of embryonic development hold that germ layer differentiation begins and ends with gastrulation. However, recent evidence suggests mesoderm and ectoderm induction occurs po…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
Osteomyelitis is a bacterial infection that has the potential to affect bone microstructure. During the excision procedure for osteomyelitic bone, the surgeons categorize the affected region…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Due to heavy metal pollution in soil around the world, many countries are not able to maximize their farmland usage. While removing the toxic metals is possible, current methods are not viab…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Toxic metals represent a serious threat to both the environment and human health which means that regulations that affect their dispersion are critical. The question of this observational st…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Metastatic cancers behave in an extremely aggressive manner. They move and spread all throughout the body and are very hard to predict and treat. The process which metastatic cancer develops…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
The recent characterization of the natural product Lindbergin E (a novel prenylated acylphloroglucinol heterodimer with leishmanicidal activity) by Socolsky et al. presents a promising alter…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The daf-2 and daf-16 genes have been highlighted for their reciprocal activity in altering longevity in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. Both daf-2 and daf-16 present orthologs in…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With increasing interest in using fMRI and functional connectivity networks to understand and diagnose neurodegeneration, advanced method for image processing are necessary to produce highly…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Honey bees are responsible for 30% of the world’s crop production and billions of dollars of the United States’ agricultural income. Without the managed bee population, the global economy wo…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Arsenite contamination of source water presents a threat to dozens of developing countries that cannot afford remediatory solutions. The conversion of arsenite to arsenate via oxidation pres…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
The use of Silver nanoparticles (NPs) and Cadmium quantum dots (CdSe/ZnS)(QDs) is increasing daily in many commercially used products such as sunscreen, water resistant clothes, and may be u…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Approximately 40% of the human genome is comprised of retrotransposons, which are genetic elements capable of amplifying themselves within the genome. Throughout the course of human life, re…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
There has been substantial growth in the prevalence and popularity of electronic cigarettes since they were developed in 2004, possibly due to advertisements that market them as a safer alte…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis (IHPS) is a condition that occurs in newborns from 0-6 months of age. Food is restricted from passing through the pylorus causing the obstruction of t…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Fourth Award
i-Motifs and G-quadruplexes are unusual DNA secondary structures that have been implicated as regulatory elements for eukaryotic gene expression. i-Motifs are intercalated ladder formations…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics, plastics under 5 millimeters in diameter, are becoming an increasingly problematic aspect of water pollution for both humans and the environment. There is an estimated micropl…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Current methods of bacterial disinfection are unsuitable due to high cost and inability to kill microbes without altering the product composition. Pulsed magnetic field technology offers pot…