Growth patterns and growth rates of tumors are irregular when compared to those of standard tissue, resulting in obstacles that affect anti-cancer chemotherapy. Consequently, both the expend…
Biomedical Engineering
This experiment tested heel striking versus toe striking in a test for muscle exertion. Toe striking is when the toe of the foot hits the ground first while running, and heel striking is whe…
Translational Medical Science
Transcriptional promoters play an important role in bacterial gene regulation. Many promoters have a conserved DNA sequences called the -35 element and the -10 element. This study was to int…
Third Award
Loss of control over hand motor ability and voluntary movements, as well as tremor, is seen in numerous people including those with neurological diseases. This reduces the quality of life an…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
Background: Myocardial infarction (MI) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Current management of MI does not replace lost cardiomyocytes (CMs) with new CMs. Induced…
The Purpose of this project is to design, build, and test the most efficient miniature greenhouse. In order to build this I needed to cut four eight foot pieces of one by two inch lumber, tw…
Translational Medical Science
Cardiovascular disease is the #1 cause of death in the world, causing over 17.5 million deaths annually. Numerous cardiovascular diseases are preceded by atherosclerosis, a condition caused…
With large amounts of oil present in our oceans which threatens the existence of sea life, scientists have been trying to find new methods to solve this crisis, and save the environment. Ins…
Graphene is a novel and very promising semiconductor material. It is a mono atomic layer of graphite with a two-dimensional honeycomb arrangement of carbon atoms. Graphene has unusually very…
Fourth Award
Antibiotics have become a vital element of modern medicine with many people calling them “miracle drugs.” Nonetheless, the misuse and overuse of these medical messiahs has led to an increase…
Various studies have shown that nearly 100,000 police-reported crashes occur each year because of drowsiness. NapX employs multiple sensors to proactively warn users when symptoms of drowsin…
In lieu of demands for high-density and lightweight energy storage, rechargeable lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries hold promise as an efficient and sustainable method to address accelerating r…
Over 5 million tons of oil is spilled annually in the world while 1.3 billion people lack access to energy. We hypothesized microbial fuel cells (MFCs) can clean up oil-polluted regions and…
Third Award
Pain is one of the most pervasive aspects of daily life, afflicting more Americans than cancer and heart disease combined. Recent research has focused on producing localized pain relievers t…
Biomedical Engineering
The efficacy of natural and synthetic antibiotics has been widely spectated on since the popularity of synthetics has increased. Scientists have worked meticulously to create advanced medica…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purposed of this experiment was to see if students performance on copying tasks improved when they were given a break (two minutes for every five minutes). For my experiment I gave 27 th…
Biochemistry
A connection between cell phones and various types of cancers, reproduction damage, and neurological damages has been suspected for years. The focal point of this analysis is to further eluc…
Biomedical Engineering
Pharmaceuticals designed to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an autoimmune disease characterized by a pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokine imbalance and chronic histopathol…
Currency detectors like vending machines have trouble differentiating between some coins because they find out which coin is which using physical property such as mass and electrical conduct…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In this mobile age, smartphones are considered the latest evolution of mobile technologies. Although the mobility of smartphones helps people satisfy basic needs, it also causes problems ass…
Biomedical Engineering
Across the world, the leading cause of death is cardiovascular disease. An underlying cause of many cardiovascular diseases is atherosclerosis, which occurs when plaque builds up in the vasc…
Third Award
With increasingly-complex concepts being developed in areas such as aerospace engineering, 3D printing is relied upon for prototyping and part manufacturing. However, due to the additive met…
Third Award
Implanted biomedical devices, such as pacemakers use batteries as power sources. These batteries run out over time and patients must undergo surgery to replace these batteries. Due to the hi…
Second Award
Large-scale adoption of solar power is limited by high cost compared to fossil fuel-based power generation. Multijunction quantum dot solar cells offer a potential high-efficiency, low-cost…
Biochemistry
Urban stormwater runoff adversely impacts the health of marine life. A more holistic approach to assessing water quality in urbanized areas should include indicators of fish health that are…
The detection of toxic chemical vapors is a significant issue in environmental monitoring, disease detection and national security, yet no cheap, user-friendly, multipurpose sensor is curren…
Cancer vaccines are a revolutionary, new field of cancer therapeutics that aim to utilize the body’s natural defenses to treat cancer. Through my research, I designed and optimized an effect…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Third Award
Photodynamic cancer therapy (PDT) is an emerging technology that treats a variety of cancers without any side effects. In PDT, photosensitizers accumulated near cancer tumors are activated t…
First Award
Over 60% of energy generated during electricity production is discarded as low-grade waste heat. Concurrently, modern power plants are reluctant to capture and sequester flue-gas CO2, due to…
Systems Software
Second Award
Tumor-shed cells from an epithelial lining lesion, or circulating tumor cells (CTCs), have been of significant concern with its highly characteristic identification and origin in metastatic…