Can Researchers Use Gene-Editing to Make Gluten-Safe Wheat?

I would not be a test subject because I get sick for a whole month, but if it's proven to work I would try this.

I would absolutely try it.  I do not like the smell of one of the ingredients in gluten-free bread.

I would be so happy if this works and would try it!

No way would I try this. WHy are scientists so intent on pushing wheat onto people whom wheat makes unwell!

59 minutes ago, BilliB said:

No way would I try this. WHy are scientists so intent on pushing wheat onto people whom wheat makes unwell!

 

My whole point with this, going gluten free was a 180 from a death bed and bucket list to slowly gaining my health back. I got nerve and brain issues with (scary). Heck going grain free and paleo (the diet of our ancestors we are genetically evolved to eat)....SO much better.

Why spend millions of dollars trying to make a crop we should not be eating anyway safe for a niche market it makes deathly ill more so? WHY not use the money to try fixing humans? I mean we have enough genetic issues that need to be addressed like the genes that gave us this disease. In my case the gene reasonable is also the one for my uclerative colitis, and makes it likely for me to end up with RA and T1 diabetes. I want that edited out of my genome.

Wheat is one of the most versatile grains known (see all the stuff that has wheat in it and for all the different reasons) and a huge player in areas where not much else will grow and thrive, so I understand why it gets the attention it does. 

I'd be very interested in seeing where this research goes.  I don't know enough about genetics to know the role these epitopes play, but if they've evolved into an unnecessary part of the organism and/or the wheat can be altered without problems it would be a boon for Celiacs and all the other associated folks with gluten issues.  I'd be particularly grateful because I'm discovering more and more that the 20ppm threshold is probably way too high for me... .

Well said, Ennis.

The sad reality is more money can be made selling wheat with reduced gliadin to hipsters and celiac patients with no willpower, than can be made from fixing broken humans. 

If this frankenwheat kills us slowly, they dont give a crap.

Don't find much merit in this idea.  Humans weren't designed to eat grasses.  Besides, in America, hybridized dwarf wheat is often sprayed with glyphosate to cure it for harvesting, so this crap can't possibly be made safe to eat anyway.

4 hours ago, BilliB said:

No way would I try this. WHy are scientists so intent on pushing wheat onto people whom wheat makes unwell!

 

Because wheat is good tasting!

On 2/14/2019 at 9:30 PM, Ennis_TX said:

　 The genes that cause celiac in humans need to be edited out. Heck the one I got also causes Ulcerative Colitis which I got Diagnosed 2 years ago with and can cause diabetes and RA.

Ugh...so sorry!

2 hours ago, etbtbfs said:

Don't find much merit in this idea.  Humans weren't designed to eat grasses.  Besides, in America, hybridized dwarf wheat is often sprayed with glyphosate to cure it for harvesting, so this crap can't possibly be made safe to eat anyway.

Not to stir up a hornet's nest, but this is a point that I think really needs clarifying:

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Glyphosate has been demonized with no good science behind it - sadly, the good science is getting no press and now is most likely going to be too late to change minds.