Shots - Health News 10:25 am Fri January 11, 2013  How Military
Research On Anthrax Could Lead To A Weapon Against Gluten
Students at the University of Washington used a protein-folding
program initially funded by the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency to come up with a treatment for celiac disease.
Credit DARPA  Originally published on Mon January 14, 2013 8:06
am  Why would the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency —
the people who helped bring the world stealth fighters and GPS —
fund research into man-made proteins that could make it easier
for some Americans to eat pizza?  That's what we wondered when
we read that the Pentagon's gee-whiz research arm provided
support for work on a drug to treat celiac disease, a condition
that interferes with the digestion of gluten in wheat and other
foods.  So we asked.  Mildred Donlon, a DARPA program manager,
told Shots the agency has no interest in developing a treatment
for celiac disease.  But in a strange twist of scientific fate,
student researchers