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Professor Bob Anderson, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Caption: Professor Bob Anderson from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia, has identified the three protein fragments that make gluten -- the main protein in wheat, rye and barley -- toxic to people with celiac disease. His discovery opens the way for a new generation of diagnostics, treatments, prevention strategies and food tests for people with celiac disease.

Credit: Czesia Markiewicz, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

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