223 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
223 projects · showing 121–150
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The survival rate for patients diagnosed with gliomas (the most common type of brain tumor) is 5.6%. Gliomas are primarily driven by pathways like NF-kB signaling, which plays a key role in…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
Observations of pulsars, whose pulses are produced by a beam of coherent radio emission, has revealed two rotation anomalies: timing noise and glitches. I undertake a comprehensive survey of…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fossil fuels produce 2/3 of the Earth’s greenhouse gases; biofuel reduces these emissions <86%. The U.S. commercially grows 2M acres of canola annually, leaving 25-30 cm of stubble/plant for…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Of the over 100 types of cancers that together claim 2,000 lives in the United States daily, neuroblastoma is the most common in children under the age of two. This project seeks to identify…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose behind this research was to investigate whether different permeable pavements can change the composition of the stormwater that flows through it, through exposure to zebrafish em…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
This project focuses on the comparative gene expression in the nematode Caenorhabditis Elegan (C. Elegan) in nine specific target genes found by Selch et al. in 2008. Due to expanding space…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Earthworms serve as important bioindicators for ecosystem health, helping track the effects of pollution on environments and organisms. The most common method for determining earthworm bioma…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. The need exists to develop an innovative diagnostic and detection measure to promptly detect the presence and type of…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Type One Diabetes (TID) is a very prevalent disease affecting 1.25 million and 40,000 more patients are diagnosed every year. This happens when auto antibodies “confuse” the pancreas as a fo…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive malignant brain tumor, accounting for 52% of all primary brain tumors. Studies show that earlier diagnosis can lead to a bette…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
All paths to a sustainable planet must pass through hydrogen-based fuel cell systems to replace our fossil-fuel dependent economy. In addition, the low weight, high power densities, and broa…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Anxiety disorders are an extremely common occurrence within many demographics. They become a major hindrance to daily activity when not treated in a timely manner and have the possibility of…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
Helium-4, the most common isotope of helium, is difficult to detect in the interstellar medium, as classical transitions are moderately rare; however, Helium-4 also can undergo forbidden tra…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Located in Olympic National Park, Lake Crescent is a glacially carved lake isolated ˜7,000 years ago by a massive landslide. It is home to two endemic salmonids; the Beardslee trout (Oncorhy…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In just one hour, more than 600,000 g are released into the Puget Sound area of Washington State; this is caused by a multitude of vehicles braking tens of thousands of times an hour, releas…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
PURPOSE: Patients often need to use their arms to assist with functional activities but after open heart surgery pushing with the arms is limited to minimize force across the healing sternum…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Ovarian germ cell tumors are tumors that arise from the egg cells of the ovaries. There are different types of ovarian germ cell tumors including mature and immature teratomas, metastatic tu…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
As Earth’s climate continues to rapidly change, rising sea levels and pressure on fresh water reserves has made many staple crop plants, especially rice, extremely vulnerable. With arable co…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) represent an innovative technology with potential applications in warehouses, factories, buildings, and ships. Current approaches to stabilize drones using…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Gene fusions are chromosomal aberrations thought to have oncogenic functions, causing nearly 20% of global cancer morbidity rates. This investigation focused on YAP1 fusions. YAP1 (yes assoc…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Currently, the LiDAR industry is booming with the advent of new robotic applications. Within the last few years, demand and massive speculation have lead the industry to see increasing compe…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical Third Award
Perovskite solar cell power conversion efficiency (PCE) has rapidly improved, however, solar cell disposal is projected to release over 78 million tons of toxins such as cadmium and lead, an…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Each year, more people die of lung cancer than colon, breast, pancreas, and prostate cancers combined. Lung cancer survival rates decline from 75% in early stages to 5% when detected late. Y…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Hybrid organic-inorganic lead halide perovskite solar cells, PVSCs, have emerged in the past decade as a promising, low cost, thin film photovoltaic device with the power conversion efficien…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Recent studies with a mouse Alzheimer’s disease model show that inducing gamma brain waves at 40 Hz causes microglia in the brain to remove plaque-forming proteins, actually treating the dis…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
One of the most dangerous components of an oil spill is the emulsion that forms between the spilled oil and surrounding seawater, as this submerged emulsion can last for many years and is di…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Regarding feminine hygiene products, the “FDA recommends that tampons be free of harmful chemicals and any pesticide and herbicide residues,” (2018) with no specific regulations that compani…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The Zika virus (ZIKV) is an infectious disease from the virus family Flavivirdea which is spread from the Aedes mosquitoes. Zika was originally isolated in the Ziika Forest of Uganda where i…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are harmful biomolecules found on the surface of gram-negative bacteria and are responsible for over 50% of cases of sepsis, the leading cause of death in US hospit…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) are industrial-scale batteries that are being considered for the storage of solar, wind, and other forms of renewable energy in power plants. The ion ex…