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ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
Little is known about octopuses, though their complex neural systems and full motion capability make them model organisms for soft robotics. However, due to the independent behavior of each…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are the 2 most common leukemias. The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be 59,610 leukemia cases a…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Lung and ovarian cancers continue to be leading causes of cancer deaths in the United States, and refining the treatment of these cancers is needed to improve patient survival. The goal of t…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Introduction Ventilation (V) and perfusion (Q) remain the main physiologic correlates to assess respiratory gas exchange. Currently several modalities can be used to ascertain V/Q with inhal…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) causes memory decline beyond normal aging and is the most common cause of dementia. Early detection and intervention can delay the progression of AD and alleviate sy…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The World Health Organization estimates that a staggering 2.2 billion individuals worldwide suffer from vision impairments, which drastically limit independence and quality of daily life. Al…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software Second Award
Ransomware attacks render data unusable and demand a ransom in order to restore data integrity. These attacks destroy billions of dollars every year in lost data and productivity at the indi…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry
Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is the most common inherited cause of Autism Spectrum Disorder. FXS is caused by transcriptional silencing of the FMR1 gene, which leads to the loss of the translati…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Climate change, ocean acidification, and decreased pH are causing detriment to kelp in our marine ecosystems. This decrease in pH is known to change the solubility of essential micronutrient…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Accurately determining the number of exoplanets in planetary systems is essential for gaining insight into planetary formation, the search for potentially habitable exoplanets, and the desig…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology Fourth Award
Doxorubicin is a globally utilized drug for cancer treatment. This drug has unfortunate cardiotoxic side-effects through drug-induced functional loss of iron-regulatory proteins (IRP1, IRP2)…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Epilepsy is characterized by recurrent seizures and is often treated with anti-seizure medications. However, 30% of patients are refractory to this approach and do not experience seizure fre…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
X-ray diffraction is the most common technique for determining atomic structures of crystals (e.g. semiconductors and proteins), and white-beam diffraction is such a powerful method that]pro…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics (MP) are small fragments of plastic less than 5mm in dimension, that have recently received attention due to their high prevalence in the environment, potential to disrupt natu…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
The detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI) holds the potential to greatly expand our understanding of the universe and our place within it. A planetary science-based approach for t…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and Interleukin-8 (IL-8) are cytokines related to general immune function, but within Sickle Cell Anemia (SCA) patients, their overproduction tends to cause autoimmune r…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
A speech sound disorder is any difficulty with perception or motor production of speech sounds and speech segments. If complications persist into late adolescence, individuals develop Residu…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide. The standard 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is the benchmark for CVD diagnosis, yet it is currently impractical for con…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The bicarbonate buffer system–a series of equilibrium reactions that function in maintaining the oceans’ alkaline pH–has recently been unbalanced by human activity. Increased concentrations…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences
Studying octopus arm movement is important for behavioral and motor control research as octopuses use their arms to capture prey, mate, fight, hide from predators, and complete tasks in expe…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Despite decades of research, scientists have yet to understand the molecular mechanisms behind aging. Currently, scientists have utilized the thoroughly annotated genomes of model organisms…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Correlations between central black hole (BH) mass and certain physical properties of their host galaxies suggest BH feedback may have substantial impacts on galactic evolution. However, a la…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over the course of the last forty years concern of the effects caused by indoor air quality on health has been increasing due to the ever-surging indoor based work environments and homes. Wi…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Metabolism forms the foundation of understanding how cellular processes work; however, not all reactions within a metabolic network are fully understood. Some specific metabolic pathways in…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
Two-dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) are at the center of recent research regarding optoelectronic devices, such as single photon emitters, due to their uni…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of human death, accounting for 17.8 million deaths in the past year. CVD causes dysfunction in blood proteins and cells. These dysfunctions…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a major clinical complication with an incidence of 50% among critical care patients and an observed in-hospital mortality of 62%. The early identification of pat…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
The Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) describes physicists’ best understanding of the fundamental makeup of the universe, yet neutrinos, part of the SM, exhibit unaccounted oscillation…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
From 2005 to 2050, crop demands will increase by 100% to 110% and 50% of land will not be suitable for agriculture (Monsees, 2019). To address this issue of land depletion, we engineered a c…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry
Individuals with medical implants that interact with the circulatory system are at risk of developing life-threatening thrombi on the surface of these devices. The implementation of non-thro…