952 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
952 projects · showing 481–510
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Second Award
According to the World Health Organization, 783-million people lack access to clean, drinking water. The majority of areas stricken with non-potable water, however, are relatively close in p…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Limb loss poses an important challenge to society, as humans have limited regenerative potential. The murine digit is used to study mammalian regeneration because it can regenerate after dis…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Third Award
Orthoceras is an extinct genus of Nautiloids, characterized by a straight, conical shell. These inhabited seas 450 million years ago, and are related to cephalopods, which are keystone speci…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Salt pollution from de-icing methods threatens freshwater systems by increasing salinity in aquatic ecosystems and drinking water. However, there is limited understanding of the seasonal dyn…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Disease-disease correlations lend to improved treatment modalities, however, current disease-disease correlation databases fail to include poorly-studied diseases. Craniosynostosis, despite…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
The purpose of this experiment is to test the quality of 3D printed, underactuated hands from the Yale OpenHand library by comparing the removal force, print time and overall print quality o…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project focuses on the prevalence of gender disparity in competitive debate, and how disparity affects how successful females are and their perception in comparison to men in profession…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is marked by persistent deficits in hyperactivity/attention that impede daily function. Since the discovery of its existence, there remains a…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Although e-cigarettes have rapidly proliferated within our youth communities and supplanted cigarettes as the primary means of nicotine consumption across the United States over the past dec…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network promises world-wide high-speed internet access. With up to 42,000 satellites to be deployed, however, the Starlink satellite network will significantly de…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Autoimmune diseases, including Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, are characterized by symptoms of chronic tissue swelling and inflammation. It remains largely unknown wh…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) are defined as ocean surface craft that remove the operator from the platform. USVs are able to autonomously navigate the ocean for extended periods of time.…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
We previously reported that Coiled-Coil Domain Containing 11 (CCDC11) is critical for the production of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) from Human Embryonic Kidney (HEK) 293T cells, likel…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Familial Alzheimer’s Disease (FAD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disease in which patients experience neurodegeneration and symptoms such as worsened memory, trouble learning, and motor…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Triggered largely by the warming and pollution of oceans, corals are experiencing bleaching and a variety of diseases caused by the spread of bacteria, fungi, and viruses. Identification of…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Our project investigates one method of decellularization, and it’s effectiveness on spinach leaves. We aim to strip spinach leaves of their DNA, and leave only the extracellular matrix (EMC)…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
Globally, clinicians, like physical therapists and physiatrists, aid individuals with gait issues in their journey towards recovery. However, they do not have a valid prediction as to what t…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
In the U.S., over $280 million is allocated annually and is allocated to tremor research. Clinical testing (upwards of 4 hours/day) still results in 37%-50% misdiagnosis in tremors. Smartpho…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
Acoustic band gap materials are periodic arrangements of scattering materials that harness the properties of waves to create band gaps—areas of space where waves of specific frequencies cann…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
The purpose of this project was to create a better transfection rate and produce better efficiency and yield so more cells can be studied through the transfection. Six 2mm dishes were treate…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
The role of cannabidiol in a Caenorhabditis elegans epilepsy model was analyzed using adenosine and tumor necrosis factor alpha antagonists to further elucidate the protective effects of can…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Angiogenesis is responsible for the development of new blood vessels from previously existing vasculature. Anomalies of the growth and differentiation of these vessels result in vascular mal…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Authors, Genes, Diseases, and Drugs in a Network (GADDNET) is a web-based platform that connects researchers and institutions via the genes and diseases they study. GADDNET can help research…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Channel State Information (CSI) describes the properties of a channel (i.e., the instantaneous amplitude and phase of a signal) in a wireless communications link. Transmitted Wi-Fi signals c…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Lupus Nephritis (LN) is an autoimmune disease that leads to chronic inflammation of the kidney and excessive proteinuria. Current methods of treatment involve management of symptoms and slow…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The Markowitz Mean-Variance model provides a computational framework for developing optimized portfolios but fails to account for the risk associated with human behavior. This study proposes…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Cadmium (Cd) is a widely used environmental pollutant. High levels of cadmium in plants can inhibit chlorophyll production, increase lipid peroxidation and reduce the activity of antioxidant…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
In the United States, 1 in 8 women will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime. By the end of 2019 alone, it is expected that approximately 300,000 new cases of invasive and in sit…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Despite studies linking a high fat diet to colorectal cancer incidence, little is known regarding intestinal adaptation to a high fat diet. As intestinal regeneration is regulated by Canonic…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Env subunit gp41, mediates fusion Sciences between the viral envelope and target cell membrane. GP41 changes conformation by inserting the fusion…