153 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
153 projects · showing 61–90
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Vaping has become one of the most popular substitutes for smoking. Often touted as an healthier alternative to cigarettes, its increase in popularity has led to an alarming increase in addic…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) impacts the retina through an accumulation of unresolved oxidative stress. Diabetic Nephropathy and AMD have a strong association, with an odds ratio o…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, and it plagues millions of people worldwide. PD is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons, associated…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Cellular proliferation and differentiation are fundamentally regulated by the physical landscape of the chromatin. In the intestine, a highly regulated molecular process maintains homeostasi…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Our urban population is rapidly expanding, which will require a reduction in private transportation and the adoption of faster and more efficient public transportation. Magnetic levitating (…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The dimple effect is a phenomenon that occurs when divots, or dimples, on an object create a turbulent boundary of air over the object leading to air moving further across the object, loweri…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
In a world where water pollution extends well into the domestic world, accessible treatment solutions are more important than ever. Three years of prior research have proven enzyme-assisted…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences Third Award
Harvesting Limulus polyphemus (horseshoe crabs) to produce the Limulus amoebocyte lysate endotoxin assay for medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and drinking water is ravaging coastal ecosyste…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Over 1.2 billion people suffer from constipation each year and in the US alone $725 million are spent on laxatives per year. The most commonly used treatments are stool softeners, osmotic, a…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Gliomas make up nearly a third of all brain tumors and are extremely aggressive in later stages, with only a 5% five-year survival rate. Each year, approximately 20,000 people are diagnosed…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA) are distinct joint diseases presenting unique pathophysiologies. Because of the similar symptoms that RA and OA present, such as arthralgia,…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Down syndrome (DS) is the most common genetic disorder in humans. It is known that trisomy of chromosome 21 causes DS, but how this chromosomal gain produces the complex DS phenotype, includ…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
With the advent of quantum computation methods such as Shor’s algorithm to factor large primes, classical encryption protocols are rendered ineffective, necessitating new quantum cryptograph…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Our global cargo ship fleet emits 4% of climate change emissions and particulate pollutants, leading to roughly 7.6 million childhood asthma cases, and 150,000 premature deaths annually. A n…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Third Award
Real world mathematical models are often built to incorporate dynamical features like Lebesgue measure preservation, but the algebraic, group theoretical properties of dynamical systems have…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
More than 95% of the approximately 7000 orphan diseases in the world do not have effective treatments, and since orphan diseases are conditions that affect a limited population, there is lit…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Peripheral nervous system (PNS) demyelinating diseases, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, are characterized by nerve impulse conduction anomalies. These anomalies can be caused by demyelinati…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
COVID-19, a raging worldwide pandemic, is constantly redefining the norm in healthcare systems with new demands and practices. Due to risk of infection, many people are apprehensive to visit…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a process by which epithelial cancer cells acquire a mesenchymal phenotype, reportedly…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
This research presents a novel machine-learning approach for the identification of potential treatments against SARS-CoV-2, the causative pathogen of COVID-19. Despite the existence of effec…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Only 3% of the water on earth is freshwater, and only a third of this is accessible for agricultural use. This poses a difficult problem for the agricultural industry because the technology…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
A new frontier in anti-aging research is the development of senolytics, drugs that selectively kill senescent cells an ameliorate age-associated disorders. A hallmark of senescence is the SA…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common form of senile dementia, is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. A predisposition or expression of chronic stress-related symptoms has bee…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The tumor suppressor protein p53, also known as the “guardian of the genome,” is known for its various protective functions in the cell ranging from cell cycle regulation to apoptosis. The p…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Earth’s average surface temperature has increased by 1.62? since the late 19th century. Natural gas was the source of about 32% of U.S. electricity generation in 2017 with coal following at…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The analysis of OCT scans aid ophthalmologists in screening patients for common blinding retinal diseases. Such analyses take up a significant amount of time and the implementation of medica…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
My project is in the area of sports analytics and it aims to understand soccer movement. I use two data sets. One is a public data set of professional soccer possessions that contains time s…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Lung cancer is the second most prominent type of cancer and accounts for the most cancer-related deaths each year. Small cell lung cancer, a major subtype of lung cancer, has a 5-year surviv…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Opioid abuse is a significant public health problem. Despite over 130 overdose deaths a day and two million Americans with some form of opioid addiction, there are still very few predictive…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Using macroinvertebrates for freshwater bioassessment was popularized by Hilsenhoff in 1977. They show cumulative effects of habitat alteration and pollutants that chemical testing and field…