After losing their son to Gaucher’s, the Macres family dedicated themselves to funding research for a cure. Decades later, a new gene treatment developed by Profs. @TFuterman47674 and Sarel Fleishman produced promising results in mice, giving hope to patients>>bit.ly/Gaucher-WIS-En

“We find ourselves facing a war on two fronts: one against the atrocities of Hamas, and another in the global arena of public opinion. Regrettably, we have noticed an alarming trend in which Israel, despite its right to self-defense, is mischaracterized as an oppressor. This is a false equivalence between the actions of a murderous terrorist organization and a sovereign state's right to defend its citizens, which unfortunately results in the loss of innocent Palestinian lives. Any attempt to justify or equivocate Hamas’s brutal and grotesque actions is intellectually and morally indefensible”. An open letter by heads of Israeli universities, including the Weizmann Institute of Science, calls for siding with humanity, enlightenment and progress. Read the full letter here >> wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/pe… #WIS_stand_together