Oklahoma Branch for AALAS

07/27/2026

Our OKAALAS National Meeting is coming up soon!

07/27/2026

OKAALAS 2026 Annual Meeting is coming up! Sign up at https://okaalas.org registration is free to members of OKAALAS with paid dues.

06/10/2026

June is and we would like to extend a very big thank you to all the veterinary professionals who oversee the welfare of dairy animals and play a critical role in ensuring the safety of our food supply!

06/05/2026

Submit a poster abstract to present at this year's OKAALAS annual meeting. Our annual meeting will be held over two afternoons, August 19 & 20.

06/02/2026

AALAS board voting is open. Please feel free to post your credentials or message and we will get them posted for you.

06/02/2026

Courtesy post for our district.

05/31/2026

04/10/2026

Scientists at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital have successfully engineered and transplanted a working oesophagus in pigs, restoring swallowing and normal growth without the need for immunosuppression.

How it works:
A donor scaffold is stripped of cells and rebuilt using the recipient’s own cells creating a personalised tissue that integrates and grows with the body.

Babies born with long-gap oesophageal atresia face multiple high-risk surgeries and long-term complications. This approach could one day offer a single, life-changing treatment. Researchers hope to begin clinical trials within five years.

👉 Read the full article here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/mar/engineered-tissue-offers-hope-babies-born-missing-food-pipe-section

12/27/2025

A ground breaking immunotherapy for aggressive leukaemia has just been approved for NHS use, produced at UCL. The treatment, called CAR T-cell therapy, reprogrammes a patient’s immune cells to recognise and destroy cancer. In clinical trials, 77% of patients went into remission, with many remaining cancer-free years later.

Carefully regulated animal studies involving mice, rats, dogs, and monkeys were essential to develop CAR T-cell therapy; helping researchers refine the therapy so it would work better and more safely in people.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/nov/wondrous-drug-treat-aggressive-leukaemia-approved-use-adults