852 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
852 projects · showing 541–570
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) significantly reduces memory, communication, focus, and reasoning skills in elderly individuals. There is no known cure with progressive deterioration. Early identif…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
The ability to communicate is almost entirely lost by paralyzed individuals. In patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis alone, 75% will need communication assistance, and in a completely…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Cardiovascular and Arterial Diseases are leading causes of death and responsible for more than a fourth of US deaths. Current Detection Methods are only implemented when symptoms appear, by…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to prove that activated carbon can neutralize the harmful effects of Imidacloprid, a pesticide. Using activated carbon can be a way for farmers and landown…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Second Award
This research has created an innovative gas-separation membrane by combining inorganic membranes with polymeric membranes. A highly selective polymer (polybenzimidazole) and a highly permeab…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance has become a pressing topic in modern medicine, and many scientists are seeking solutions to eliminate the need for antibiotics. Bacteria communicate to each other to f…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Exponentially increasing necessity for stronger and long-lasting turbine blades to power our industrial world calls for major development in the solidification protocol of metallic alloys. A…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Tobacco abuse alone currently accounts for 1 in 5 deaths annually in the US. Despite this, present methods of rehabilitation have proven ineffective with over a 90% likelihood of relapse. To…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
Heart disease and respiratory problems are the leading causes of death for the 40 million people aged 65 or older in the United States. Yet 36% of elderly patients report transportation diff…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
The field of genetic engineering is rapidly developing with exciting new discoveries being made every day. However, existing gene editing technologies do not have perfect accuracy, and creat…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Total knee replacements slip out of alignment over time and need to be realigned using surgical techniques. More than 54,000 revisions are performed each year in the USA alone. The revision…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study investigates if people are more satisfied with a decision after they get advice from a surrogate or by using affective forecasting. Participants 14-18 years old were given a piece…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
During bitumen extraction, a mixture of fine silts, hydrocarbons, salts, and soluble organic compounds called oil sands tailings is produced. In Oil Sand Tailing Ponds, crude oil is present.…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
This research was conducted in the hopes of identifying a sustainable option for producing animal protein for developing countries and those wanting to have a sustainable food source. Develo…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Every year, one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. A subtype of breast cancer is triple negative breast cancer, a disease in which tumors lack expression of estrogen recept…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Many efforts have been made in genetically modifying plants to make them more tolerant to various stress conditions. For example, the overexpression of AVP1 and PP2A-C5 increases either salt…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The gravitational behavior of antimatter has never been conclusively determined through experimentation and thereby has long remained elusive to the field of physics. Various experiments hav…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
PD-L1 and PD-L2 are two transmembrane proteins created by cancerous tumors that have an affinity towards PD-1, a protein receptor expressed by T Cells. I If these proteins bind to the recept…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
The researcher has successfully designed a new quantum communication protocol which sends information directly on a quantum state. Due to the measurement principle and the no cloning theorem…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this experiment is to develop an app that can take a picture of a patient’s ear and successfully diagnose the presence of ear infection (otitis media) automatically, without t…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
To combat the main source of headaches, neck tension, a smart cervical neck brace was devised using Raspberry Ri and Arduino System. Patent and literature research demonstrated no such techn…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Over the last three years, I have developed a new diagnostic screening test for dyslexia. My test is based on research that suggests dyslexia is an auditory processing disorder rather than s…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
The student researcher previously concluded that East Indian Sandalwood Oil (EISO) inhibits AGS gastric cancer cells by inhibiting a TRPM7-like ion channel recorded via automated patch clamp…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Americans today recycle only 6.5 percent of the 33.6 million tons of plastic produced each year. The remaining plastic is thrown into landfills and takes an average of 450 years to decompose…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
The United States Military Academy (USMA) released a design to the public for a Pratt truss bridge made from file folders. The purpose of this project was to modify that original design so a…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry Second Award
Multidrug resistance (MDR) drastically curbs treatment success in cancers and other systemic diseases. A membrane pump overexpressed in tumors, Pgp, renders cancer cells ‘resistant’ to our w…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Concussion diagnostics rely heavily on subjective data and inconclusive tests resulting in undetected concussions. Undetected concussion lead to permanent brain damage if another concussion…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
The purpose of this experiment was to test how a colored bacteria-based bioluminescent solar concentrator can be used to enhance the power output of photovoltaic cells. We hypothesized that…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Bioluminescent strains of Pseudomonas syringae pathovar (pv.) tomato was developed for a high-throughput resistance assay. There has been an effort to generate a pathogen carrying a luminesc…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Third Award
Textiles have become the second most polluting industry in the environment, after petroleum. As a $772 billion field, businesses will need to find green, alternative solutions, due to the 2.…