Trainome pre-winter meeting ✅ Evening skiing, ice bathing and sauna. Refreshed and ready for some science!

This was the last proper hike in these mountains (Langsua) this year. Excellent way to celebrate two weeks of successful baseline testing and biopsies in the REPEAT study and prepare for the third and final round of biopsies in the ReLiEf study (three yrs of data collection).

I was asked to organise an activity for the new students this semester. I borrowed a colleague and did an unorthodox workout inspired by my time as a youth strength and conditioning coach without equipment. It turns out some of it was filmed. So as inspiration to all interested:

People often ask how much tissue we get from our micro biopsies. I usually get 20-30mg per clip (typically do two or three clips) with a 14G needle. It may not sound like much, but one clip will contain about 1000-1500 fibres. Only less of each fibre than, e.g. Bergström