I have a friend who is so lactose intolerant (how lactose intolerant is he?), he won’t even let milkmen move into his neighborhood. Thank you, I’m here all week; enjoy the buffet! Anyway, here is one of those stories that just may freak some people out, but I tend to be much less squeamish about things like this. A team of New Zealand researchers have bioengineered a hypoallergenic cow—creatively named Daisy (what, was Elsie taken?)—that can produce milk devoid of the protein β-lactoglobulin that causes the allergic reactions common to those who have problems digesting whey. The research is all still in the early stages, and they have found that although Daisy’s milk lacked β-lactoglobulin, it was higher in casein, another protein that also can trigger allergies, albeit those unrelated to whey or lactose allergies. One other weird thing: Daisy was born without a tail, which the scientists believe is completely unrelated. Although the anti-GM folks will likely, ahem, have a cow, it bears mentioning that Daisy-esque milk is a very long ways away from the grocer’s dairy case. “We are nowhere near any clinical tests—what we are currently doing is to show that milk from our transgenic cow is indeed less allergenic,” said study author and scientist at AgResearch in New Zealand Stefan Wagner. The research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.