329 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
329 projects · showing 61–90
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Autonomous unmanned vehicles (drones, etc.) require fast and resource-efficient perception and control to perform in dynamic, unpredictable real-world environments. Comprehending visual real…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) affects over 280 million individuals globally, but less than 25% of those affected receive proper care. Early detection is vital for timely intervention and t…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a highly invasive malignant brain tumor with a low patient survival rate. Tumor cells multiply quickly into healthy brain tissue, making it difficult to remo…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness among working-age adults. Early detection is crucial to reducing DR-related vision loss risk but is filled with challenges. Manual…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This study addresses the ethical implications of using artificially intelligent neural networks for medical diagnosis, with a focus on skin diseases. While such networks have demonstrated hi…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Each year, twenty million people are diagnosed with cancer. Its prevalence is increasing at a faster pace than any other disease. Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 (CDK2) plays a key role in regulat…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
This experiment aimed to continue the search for a cure for celiac disease using mesenchymal stem cells by inhibiting the PD-L1/PD-1 pathway to determine whether it was a contributing factor…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hardikar Syndrome (HS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by cleft lip/palate, pigmentary retinopathy, intestinal malrotation, and hepatobiliary disease. The disease is known to be cau…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry
17ß-estradiol (E2) is a steroidal estrogen used in agriculture to promote animal growth and increase milk yield cows, and is the most common endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) found in wast…
ISEF · 2024
Materials Science
Global energy consumption is increasing rapidly due to the proliferation of electronic devices, causing sustainability concerns, thereby requiring the use of new semiconductor materials. The…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry Fourth Award
When Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman developed mRNA therapeutics, they packaged mRNA in 4-component lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to prevent bloodstream degradation by RNases. Research has sin…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Plastic pollution poses a significant environmental threat, resulting in over 29 million tons of plastic waste generated every year. With the demand for plastic increasing, it becomes impera…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The task of wild environment ranging in mountainous forest environment is long conducted by the human forest rangers with limited and rudimentary mountain equipment, which leads to lack of c…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Amyloid-beta is a protein that can misfold into pathological fibril aggregations and lead to the formation of plaques in the brain—one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). While the…
ISEF · 2024
Materials Science
Sand is being depleted at an alarming rate, and it's estimated that by 2050, about 68% of the world's sand will have been consumed (UNEP, 2022). This is a concerning issue because the concre…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
No practical method of treating greywater has been integrated into agriculture. The purpose of this research was to develop a hydroponic filter that increases the ecological sustainability o…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The process of disposing of expanded polystyrene (EPS) is by burning it in municipal incinerators. This process gives off EPS microplastics, which can find their way into water, food, blood,…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The symptom of neuromuscular tremors arises when large groups of neurons abnormally fire in unison. Using computer simulations, a team at Stanford discovered that a patterned stimulus that v…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
In automated exoplanet classification utilizing transit photometry data and deep learning, there is a disparity in the performance and training data of TESS models compared to Kepler models.…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Over the past decades, robotics has become an increasingly popular method to engage students in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math(STEM). However, due to the lack of af…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
During a menstruating person’s lifetime, over 11,000 disposable menstrual products and their packaging are sent to landfills. Recent advances in textiles have made reusable fabric menstrual…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Determining neuronal identity in imaging data is an essential task in neuroscience, facilitating the comparison of neuronal activity across organisms. Cross-organism comparison, in turn, ena…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Remote sensing technologies have revolutionized the ability to detect and classify tree species. This is vital for sustainable management and conservation, and especially early detection and…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are a life-threatening condition with a ruptured mortality of 80-90% with no current drug-based therapies. They result from the thinning of media & adventit…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
Exoplanet study has evolved into a methodical science capable of discovering physical characteristics. However, limitations exist in ascertaining exoplanet composition in practice and on a l…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology First Award
Staphylococcus aureus (SA) kills over 330,000 people yearly, is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, and can stop wounds from healing. This study engineered bacterial cellulose-ca…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
As global life expectancy improves, the population of the elderly, persons that are aged 65 years and older, is steadily increasing as well. However, with aging populations a greater prevale…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Over time, human populations in coastal areas have affected the environment more and more. Nutrients in marshes and salt pans are increasing due to human impact. Nutrient pollution is one of…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry
The BRCA1/2 proteins and the RAD52 protein are part of the DNA damage response pathway. Breast cancer can be caused by mutations to the BRCA1/2 pathway. RAD52 and BRCA1/2 are synthetically l…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Sedimentary rock layers found in eastern Pennsylvania, including Berks County, are known to have uranium deposits. Radon-222 is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that is a daughter eleme…