The company's purpose is to establish and manage a medical analysis laboratory. The company may also, in Switzerland and abroad, create branches or subsidiaries, take participations in, and more generally participate in all companies and entities having a direct or indirect relationship with its purpose; carry out, either on its own account or on behalf of third parties, all commercial, financial, movable or immovable transactions, this purpose being limited in Switzerland to the acquisition of properties with exclusively commercial use, directly or indirectly related to its purpose or likely to promote it; grant loans or any other form of financing and provide guarantees of any kind, for the direct or indirect benefit of its shareholders, companies of the same group or third parties, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges or securities on the company's assets.