11705 projects whose affiliated fair was here, most recently in 2026.
ISEF records a state or province for some finalists and not others, so these counts do not add up to the country total.
11705 projects · showing 7651–7680
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
This project sought to determine if the similarities in transduction of mammalian and plant action potentials through ion channels could allow use of a unique plant indicator, the Mimosa pud…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Chronic disease is the leading cause of death in the world. Next generation therapeutics are needed to combat the growing global health crisis of chronic diseases, such as cancers and heart…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) are an abundant heavy metal stressor frequently discharged as industrial effluent. There has been little research on the effect of TiO2 NPs on aquat…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
The American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, was hunted extensively until a management program was started in 1967. This management program, which is still used today, consists of hun…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Near-Earth asteroids can pose serious dangers to life on Earth. The location of near-Earth asteroid 2003 QB90 (242211) was measured over a four week period (July 9, 2017-August 5, 2017) usin…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Empirical evidence demonstrates that an organism’s phenotypes are often based on multiple interdependent genes, rather than a single gene. When the expression of a phenotype is predicated on…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
The overall goal is to identify a non-destructive real-time PCR-based method allowing for rapid genotypic selection in Lactuca sativa (lettuce) seedlings at an early stage of development. Th…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
Remote monitoring of the environmental status of a mesocosm would allow for immediate real-time data collection with customisation using a variety of sensors depending on the experiment or m…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
The most important geometric invariant of a degree-n complex rational function f(X) is its monodromy group, which is a set of permutations of n objects. This monodromy group determines sever…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
When cancer spreads from one organ to another, it becomes significantly harder to treat. This process, known as metastasis, is involved in 90% of cancer deaths. Because metastasis presents a…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to engineer a device that could be placed into a real wildlife environment with the ability to deter wildlife from crossing roads to avoid wildlife vehicle…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Bacterial vaginosis is a very prevalent women's health issue that affects millions of women worldwide every year, and many current treatments are messy, inconvenient, and ineffective. Theref…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
When purchasing a car, consumers must select what type of fuel they want to use in the car. The ability to use one engine that could run on multiple fuel types would allow consumers to choos…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
TMEV, a murine single-stranded positive sense RNA virus, is a model for both multiple sclerosis (MS) and epilepsy, as it results in a demyelinating encephalomyelitis in the CNS, resembling M…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The cost of damage caused by hurricanes in 2017 is estimated to be over 200 billion dollars. Quick and accurate prediction of the path of a hurricane and its strength would be very valuable…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Lung cancer accounts for the majority of cancer-related deaths each year. Despite its prevalence, current detection methods can take up to 10 days and cost up to $300 for one screening. The…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Voice leading in music is a key element of the Western tradition. It is closely associated with homotopy, the exploration of chordal paths in higher dimensional configuration spaces. Musicia…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
According to the National Cancer Institute, breast cancer is the most common malignancy in United States women, accounting for more than 40,000 deaths each year. The main cause of death in b…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Alzheimer’s Disease affects an estimated 5.4 million people, making it the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Seeking to increase therapeutic gains, near infrared light (NIR)…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Each year about 50,000 patients die from colon cancer – it is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Colon cancer usually develops from polyps, which are growths on t…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Abstract Produced by traumatic brain injury such as concussions, free radicals cause many problems when released in the brain including memory loss, attention problems, depression, and disor…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Detecting rare cell types would allow very early disease diagnosis (e.g., cancer, infection), identification of new cell types, and deepen our understanding of cell differentiation. We devel…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Purpose: The experiment identified Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) as a novel molecular target in Serous Ovarian Carcinoma determined the potential of SSI-4, an SCD1 inhibitor, as a novel m…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Kinesins are motor proteins that move unidirectionally along microtubules as they hydrolyze ATP. Although the general features of the kinesin walking mechanism are becoming increasingly clea…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Next-generation intracellular delivery solutions are necessary and will provide essential roles in drug therapeutic applications as well as being critical components of genome editing approa…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products(PPCPs) are aquatic contaminants that have been detected in surface water globally. However, their aquatic toxicity, especially in complex mixtures,…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Today’s farmers must be innovative and cautiously smart with the way that the markets are continuing to trend. They must figure out how cost may be eliminated, what they can do to increase p…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
After trying to naturally reduce nitrate levels in an aquarium, we began to wonder if there were natural ways to remove nitrate levels in streams. We collected stream water from the New Prag…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The project’s purpose was to code and train an artificial intelligence model, as well as to make an auxiliary device that monitors infants in their sleep to prevent cases of Sudden Infant De…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD) is expected to become the third largest killer worldwide by 2030. Current diagnosis mechanisms are time-consuming and costly, highlighting the ne…