Northeast: ARS scientists are using gene editing to assist in the development of a vaccine for African swine fever, which has devastated the pork industry in the eastern part of the world.

Southeast: A team of researchers, including ARS scientists, is on the cusp of releasing the world's first treatment for peanut allergy. The team developed an oral immunotherapy drug that is nearing final approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Midwest: ARS researchers found that adding hops, an important ingredient in beer, to cattle feed may reduce overall cattle feed requirements and cut the animals' excretion of ammonia into the environment.

Plains: ARS scientists and their collaborators have developed a rapid, affordable test that can accurately detect the Zika virus by just shining a beam of light for a few seconds on the species of mosquito that spreads it.

Pacific West: ARS scientists found success in controlling cheatgrass, an aggressive invasive weed, using pre-emergent herbicides as part of an integrated management plan.

International: ARS researchers at the European Biological Control Laboratory's substation in Thessaloniki, Greece, have developed a molecular method that could revolutionize the surveillance of sand flies. Leishmaniasisis a disease transmitted by the sand fly and although it is not common in the United States, it poses a major threat to the U.S. military deployed overseas.