News: Celiac.com: Scientists Genetically Engineer a Form of Gluten-Free Wheat

[Scott Adams]

A freshly baked roll is as delightful as a soft, fluffy cloud on a summer's day. What gives bread much of its appealing texture is gluten, a group of proteins found in wheat, rye and barley. But in people with a serious autoimmune disorder called celiac disease, gluten damages the small intestine.

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[Ennis-TX]

Bit of progress end product still contains gluten....just less of it.....I would still play it safer and just eat non wheat containing foods, and stick to my grain free diet. I honestly think they are going about this wrong, instead of altering the genes of the food that we react to....why not fix us....I money wise it seems like a bad idea for them and much more risky but they could try RNA editing where we would have to come in for constant treatments. But then again snowball chance in hell of having the that pass clinical trials.

Second point, if you remove the gluten proteins that make the bread sticky and gummy texture...you remove the aspect that makes gluten a binder in bread and why wheat is used in the first place.....might as well just make wheat flavored artificial extract.
Like buy the new gluten free wheat flour,,,,add a gum to to make it bind up and form up....same principle just that flavor is different. Seems round about.

[Awol cast iron stomach]

As most veteran celiac's have likely lost the taste/ desire for wheat over the many years they have been gluten-free not sure if the target celiac audience will be big buyers. 

To add to Ennis' point why this angle Vs. helping the actual autoimmune celiac patient, the thought crossed my mind too. Sorry to be the pessimist I thought of industry, commodities, finances, politics as grains are profitable and modifying them maybe more attractive .....

Modify to market

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lastly, it is naive to underestimate the immune systems intelligence just because a test fails to measure,  or its 80percent less , does not mean the immune system will not "catch on" to the new altered product