20 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
20 projects · showing 1–20
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry
Camelina sativa is an oilseed crop for biofuel production. Genetic modifications have improved traits like oil content and stress resistance, with the DsRed fluorescence marker used to ident…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Gravitational waves (GW) are primarily emitted when compact binary objects collide while orbiting each other. Another possible mechanism is a stellar explosion resulting in a supernova forma…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
While driving, mere seconds are the difference between life and death. These seconds are your reaction time. Teenage drivers are too relaxed at the wheel. They believe they are driving safel…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The Keap1Nrf2 Pathway, responds to oxidative by signaling to the MHS1 complex to activate CD8 and CD4 T-cells via APCs. CD4 and CD8 T-cells function in conjunction to fight invading pathogen…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Concrete is the most used material in the world second only to water. This project was to create a concrete material that can be used to build business, residential, and infrastructural site…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is not only one of the most common non-sex-specific cancers, but also one of the most deadly. Early diagnosis and treatment, however, can significantly improve patien…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The problem addressed was does per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) affect the amount of Chlorophyll in lettuce. If 15mLof PFAS is added to plant, the plant will have a lower percent a…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Prolonged opioid use after surgery causes substnce abuse and opioid use disorders. Physicans are prescribing opioids at high dosages and for longer durations of time than reccommended amount…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
Space junk, or orbital debris, poses an increasing threat to spacecraft and satellite-based infrastructure due to extremely high impact velocities, and any collision may result in thousands…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The extent of cell to cell communication between macrophages and tumor melanoma cells in mice was investigated. Two experiments were run. The first was an MTT assay which investigated whethe…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Soil based microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use soil bacteria to convert chemical energy of soil components into electricity directly. Organic matter (food source for microbes) addition helps cre…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) affects the lives of millions of people through its life-altering complications. Worldwide, 3.4 million people die of diabetes annually. It is known that T2DM…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In Kansas, there has been an exponential increase in the number of earthquakes. A factor of 21 in 2013 to 659 in 2014, and 448 in 2015. It is vital that we understand why this increase is oc…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This research presents a computational pipeline for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis. Due to the scientific potential of the complex and multifaceted information provided by SNP…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
This experiment is intended to devise a safe way to sanitize a refrigerator and its contents. Food borne illnesses are extremely common and have become an increasing issue in the United Stat…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Soil buffering is the ability of soil to resist pH change, either towards the acidic or alkaline ends of the spectrum. The effects of certain factors on soil buffering are unknown: when a lo…
ISEF · 2016
We tested if natural disasters had an effect on the micronutrient count in the soil. If we test the following scenarios: forest fire, grassland fire, and blizzards to see how they affect the…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study shows which type of pineapple juice has the greatest amount of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) between fresh pineapple juice, frozen pineapple juice from concentrate, and canned pineapp…
ISEF · 2015
This experiment investigates the effectiveness of genetically modified yeasts on fermentation in corn-based ethanol production. The experimental hypothesis states that GMO yeasts would yield…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Coal is one of the world’s largest assets in terms of energy, in 2012 coal provided 41% of the entire worlds electricity. In order to provide so much energy large reserves of coal were burne…