355 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
355 projects · showing 181–210
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
This project studied the Effects of Declining pH Levels of Seawater Caused by Ocean Acidification on Zooxanthellae and Coral Bleaching. This is important because coral reefs are considered a…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
The chemotherapeutic, hydroxyurea (HU), is an antimetabolite drug generally used to treat chronic myelocytic leukemia as well as HIV and sickle cell anemia. Although initial hydroxyurea ther…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Currently, over 3.4 million Americans aged 40 years and older are considered legally blind or suffering from visual impairments. For these people, navigating daily life can be difficult and…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The sequences of most proteins are inferred from the longest open reading frame (ORF) found in their parent mRNA. While the rule is simple and convenient, it does not model the underlying bi…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Currently over a million cases of cancer are diagnosed each year, around fifty percent result in death. Cancer only accounts for 2.5% of the 4,000 identified genetic diseases. Genetic diseas…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
Bioplastic, or plastic made from sustainable and natural materials, is one of the ways of tackling the world’s plastics problem. The acid-based bioplastic production process developed last y…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the USA, 85% of our landfill content is compostable, recyclable, or otherwise reusable; on a global scale, 91% of plastics aren’t recycled, instead ending up in landfills and harming the…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Commercially viable carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration with magnesium silicates, such as olivine, is still primarily experimental. My previous research showed a closed system containing oliv…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Pancreatic cancer is a devastating and incurable disease with a 5-year survival rate of just 10%. Due to genetic alterations known as mutations, certain cancer-inhibiting and cell vitality g…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Marine biotoxins such as domoic acid (DA), a neurotoxin produced by the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia spp., and paralytic shellfish poison (PSP), a neurotoxic byproduct of the saxitoxin-producing…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum neural networks (QNNs) provide efficient data analysis through large feature Hilbert spaces and could solve classically-intractable particle physics problems. However, current resear…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1.7 million people suffer from hospital-acquired infections each year in the United States alone, which accounts for 99,000 deaths. The most…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Quadrupeds are useful machines for a variety of situations. To find the best design for a quadruped there needs to be significant research first with computer software and then physical prot…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This project studied the impact of tocopheryl acetate and diacetyl on the motility of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a model for EVALI (E-Cigarette and Vaping Associated Lung Injury). This is…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Schwannomatosis is a rare genetic disease characterized by pain and the development of peripheral nerve sheath tumors called schwannomas. Schwannoma in patients have mutations in the NF2 gen…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Carbon sequestration is a key part of climate change mitigation efforts. Plants naturally pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during photosynthesis, but when they decompose, the CO2 is r…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
An emerging “fifth pillar” of cancer therapy is CAR T-cell therapy. This therapy involves the removal and engineering of a patients’ CD8 T-cells to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
With resistant strains of pathogenic microbes becoming more common, reducing bacterial contamination during surgery and in daily activity is a necessity. Bonding antimicrobial groups to UV c…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software Third Award
Drowning detection in dynamic swimming environments is a challenging problem in computer vision, for which no satisfiable solutions have been found. Currently known methods primarily rely on…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Aluminum-ion batteries, with a stainless steel mesh cathode, aluminum (Al) anode, and salt(NaCl) water electrolyte has the ability to sequester CO2 around it, generating aluminum oxalate as…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
Rapidly evolving cellular imaging techniques deliver improved diagnostic specificity and complement the spatial visualization of x-ray CT imaging. Both types of imaging need contrast agents…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
Diabetes is a chronic condition that requires constant monitoring of blood glucose and external administration of insulin. People with diabetes monitor their blood glucose by an invasive met…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
The purpose of my research and project is to create a dynamical comprehensive mathematical model that represents the flow of non-Newtonian polymeric fluids through a pipe. For industries fro…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software Fourth Award
Finding correlation and causation between lifestyle habits and disease remains a major public health goal of our society. With the usage of genetic, lifestyle, and epidemiological data, we a…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The speech-to-song illusion is the blurring of music and speech perception in which spoken phrases are heard as music after repetition. The illusion effects might be different for musicians…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hydroxyurea (HU) is a ribonucleotide reductase inhibitor which is used to treat diseases such as HIV, sickle cell disease, and chronic myelogenous leukemia (1). Yet, new evidence suggests th…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this project was to create a functional exoskeleton arm that would assist someone in picking up objects, especially for those who have muscle disabilities that make their arms…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Soil Conductivity [soil EC], the measure of soil salinity, offers farmers invaluable information to predict crop yields, manage field sustainability, and create a decision support system [DS…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
Rockets have enabled countless technologies that we rely on today, such as GPS, weather satellites, and communications networks. In order to reduce the likelihood of failure during launch, e…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
Throughout the past decade, significant aerospace research has been focused on bending the cost curve of space exploration through the development of reusable boosters. However, the investme…