They aren't. There's a doc coming out about it soon though.

Actually I got mixed up - they have control over who has access to the genome sequence of HeLa cells, and only researchers can request access, and they are part of that group with scientists. While they don’t get any money, the case around HeLa and the Lacks family was instrumental in the Supreme Courts decision to…

I haven't read the book, but the fact that the family gained back control (and has a veto on anything to do with her cells, including genome sequencing) seems like a fair deal in the end. I should have said relatively happy, not happy happy!

The story is so fucked up beyond belief but has a happy ending, thank god. Without HeLa cells we wouldn’t have made many of the advances we have made in the past 60-odd years, and her family are part of a group that controls the cells in question. The interesting thing about her cells (specifically her cancer cells)…

Lucy Lawless is Lucy Lawless. Damn. I want her to rescue me. :(

I thought Emily Blunt was an actual super hero?

Erm, there were plenty PoC fighting in the trenches. #ffs

AND if you really do fancy a waist, just add a fucking belt.

Nah you don't. You'd know if you did. #godcurseduswithmidgesandthenglishandimnotsurewhatisworse

Are there midges? And is the shortage really that bad?! New Zealand looks awesome!

FELLOW MED STUDENT. <3 y am i doin this to myselfffffffffffu

Listen the way things are going in the UK, me and midget are seriously considering moving there too. FUCK JEREMY HUNT.

When I win the Nobel Prize for Medicine and become CMO for Scotland, if anyone refers to me as “former barista” they are going to get a personal visit from me and a Glasgow kiss.

I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE AND ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT BISTRO?? Their post-drinking food is an institution in Glasgow, like the Noodle Bar beside the Garage, and completely beloved. Perfect choice! 727 and Barbecue Kings on Great Western Road (the former has the best coleslaw ever) and the Gregs on Gordon Street open until…

Like we say in Glasgow: Edinburgh is just England with a tartan skirt. #yourewelcome

Was that 727? Tell me where!

London is the rudest place I've been to, and I've been to Paris. Come to Glasgow! Everything north of the border is friendly! (And violent, but we give directions to the hospital after we jump you xx)

Glasgow university in Scotland is a kind of tourist attraction. I was running late for an exam while they were blocking a main stairwell in the old building and I wasn’t about to fail because of a bunch of tourists who were taking pictures and walking too slow.

I’ve done major incident training and this is the cardinal rule. While I applaud these guys for making her safe, do not, I REPEAT DO NOT, put yourself in harms way unless you know what you are doing! These people are lucky and that includes the one of them that was seriously burned. This could have easily been four…

YAS QUEEN.