153 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
153 projects · showing 121–150
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
The world remains unprepared to contain the Zika virus and other similar mosquito borne viral diseases which can spontaneously become an epidemic in days. In a survey published by the Wall S…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Third Award
BACKGROUND: Malaria is a disease that mainly affects the poor, and is caused by a parasite (plasmodium) that cannot reproduce outside of humans. Most malaria patients are asymptomatic until…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Metastatic cancers are associated with a poor prognosis, as current treatments often prove ineffective at targeting every cancer cell and are rather damaging to normal cells. The research re…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs), which are fatal to aquatic ecosystems, human health, and water-reliant industries, largely occur because of an unnatural increase in Nitrate and Phosphate and ar…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Lung cancer claims 150,000 Americans yearly, yet only 15.7% are diagnosed pre-metastasis. Current computer diagnostics focus on Bayesian networks using rule-based prediction. In this project…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a degenerative brain disorder resulting in neuronal death and loss of memory and cognition. However, the exact etiology of AD is not completely understood. This n…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Third Award
Extensive studies have been done on the causes and consequences of aging, but the actual mechanism behind this process is only partially understood. My research on Rpd3, a homologue of mamma…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal genetic neurogenerative disorder caused by expansion of CAG trinucleotide repeats in the huntingtin (HTT) gene greater than 35 repeats. The expanded CAG…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Pollution control is currently viewed as a cost, something to be avoided and ideally passed down to the next generations. This study focuses on converting nutrient pollution into a product o…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
Quantitative studies of correlation between snake coloration patterns and their latitudinal distribution is lacking despite the importance it poses for ectotherms coping with climate change.…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Increases in world population have required improved agricultural yields. Cellulose binding domain IV (CBD), the non-catalytic domain of a novel family of carbohydrate-binding hydrolases, ha…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Electrical discharges in liquids have been used for water disinfection and decontamination, nanoparticle production, and many other chemical and biological applications. Gas bubbles are intr…
ISEF · 2016
Numerous methods, such as chemical reduction, biosynthesis and laser ablation, all account for the generation of nanoparticles. However, the environmental-friendliness and swiftness in plasm…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Drug resistant malarial parasites and inability to monitor patient response to treatment kill nearly a million people every year. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a highly sensit…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Tissues were obtained from a previous study in which rats were exposed to NM (.125 mg) or PBS (which was used as a control) through an intratracheal injection; after 30 minutes rats received…
ISEF · 2016
A main concept in physics is energy within a system and how it causes the velocities of the molecules to change. Within biology, this can greatly affect how systems function, as enzymes (bio…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Development of cancer-specific drugs is critical to improve quality of life and survival of cancer patients. This integrative research demonstrates a novel concept to improve specificity of…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Interleukin-4 (IL-4), a cytokine found in excess in the tumor microenvironment, is known to induce cancer cell proliferation. In vitro research suggests that the IL-4-induced activation of t…
ISEF · 2015
MAXIMUM k-COLORABLE SUBGRAPH is a classic NP-Complete problem that inputs a simple graph G with n vertices and k colors; it asks for the largest subgraph in which every vertex is colored and…
ISEF · 2015
Most prosthetic devices do not use computer-enabled mechanical components. The most advanced prototype systems, currently under development, seek to create neuro-mechanical interfaces. These…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Northern diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) do not consume eastern mudsnails (Ilyanassa obsoleta), despite the snail’s abundance and availability throughout the mudflats of New York…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project was to identify the optimal concentrations of luminol and sodium carbonate for maximum light output by using image analysis in order to construct mathematical mod…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Type-2 diabetes results when insulin producing beta-cells cannot compensate for rising insulin resistance. Diabetic pathologies may ensue including retinopathies. Current treatments show adv…
ISEF · 2015
Improving ground-level and aerial intruder detection is a growing concern in the advent of threats such as drones for which current detection methods are inadequate. This research adopted a…
ISEF · 2015
The ThereNIM (There-Non Invasive Monitor) is a novel touch-less respiratory monitor. It is noninvasive without any contact with the patient. In addition, it is inexpensive and implementable…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The presence of noise is ubiquitous in realistic physical systems. Entangled quantum bits represented by atoms, spins, photons, etc., often go through a process known as quantum decoherence…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Recent exponential increases in the world population have necessitated advances in agricultural methodology and greater efficiency for alternative energy technology. Cellulose binding domain…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Pseudomonas aeruginosa can cause nosocomial infections in immunocompromised patients’ tracts or organs that other bacteria would not normally inhabit. P. aeruginosa’s twitching motility and…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) could revolutionize patient-specific regenerative medicine, but their premature aging symptoms, currently misunderstood, limit their clinical applicabi…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Mutations in the MeCP2 gene are the most common cause of Rett Syndrome (RTT), a severe form of autism diagnosed primarily in girls. The MeCP2 gene product, MeCP2, is a transcriptional regula…