Thanks Al.
Here is an article about Chaitan Khosla, the founder of Alvine.
http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_...100672&org=NSF
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Chaitan Khosla and his colleagues at Stanford University, and a group at the University of Norway in Oslo determined that the destructive autoimmune response in celiac sufferers can be traced to an unusually long molecule -- a chain of 33 amino acids -- that cannot be broken down by the human digestive system. This molecule and its close relatives are abundant in wheat, rye, and barley -- food grains toxic to celiac patients -- but not in "safe" food grains such as rice and corn. To test potential treatments, the researchers immersed the gluten fragment in enzymes derived from bacteria, and they found one that was effective in breaking the chain into pieces that can easily be digested in the gut.
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Here are the articles that Dr. Khosla has helped author
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auth:Khosla,C
Anne