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So this is how to form a muscle biopsy using an Argon Supercore needle, which is a semi-automatic system. So one click, two clicks, make an incision in the skin with a scalpel, 11 blade, go down to the fascia, ideally, so you can feel the fascia bouncing with the blade and then advance this needle. There's two ways of doing it. I think this is going to be the safer way,

where you actually push this forwards first before engaging. You've made the incision in the skin and fascia. Go at this sort of angle so you're not going in too deep. To the second point and fire. Withdraw along there. Do two clicks again. Gently push out and as you can see there's some sample and then we'll remove it onto the petri dish. As part of this trial we just need

40 milligrams So Dan and I have a bit of a bet How much do you reckon this is going to weigh Dan I think that be 20 20 milligrams we see We come back to that And that's it, really. And we're ready to go for the next one. Okay, so Dan, this is the Biopins device by Argon.

This seems to be a lot more versatile. So the first step is to click this forwards, close this as such. So it clicks into place. Different gradations. You can see each one is at a centimetre. So that's five. There's 10 centimetres. Go to the desired depth. Again, make a nick in the fascia and skin.

Advance, we don't need to go beyond three centimeters. Press the pink to release. Gather the sample. Do the same procedure again now in reverse. Open, lock. And while pushing out, we should get the sample all in one core, which you can see over here. And then we'll divide into two alicots as needed.

Thank you.