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Sinevo modernized its laboratory in Dnipro

Synevo Medical Laboratory has modernized its laboratory in Dnipro, increasing its capacity by 20%.

According to the press release of Synevo, within the framework of modernization in the laboratory a diagnostic platform Cobas Pure from Roche Diagnostics (Switzerland) was installed, which is capable of performing 230 types of biochemical analyses at a rate of up to 870 tests per hour.

As a result of the upgrade, the total throughput capacity of bio/immunoassay analyzers in Dnipro will be 5,270 tests per hour.

“The capacity of the laboratory allows to qualitatively and quickly meet the demand of customers from the eastern and central regions of the country. Today this is a super-important task, as the work of the Synevo laboratory in Kharkov was suspended for security reasons, which significantly increased the load on the Dnipro laboratory of the company,” the press release emphasizes.

In general, thanks to the expansion of the analyzer base, the laboratory of Synevo in Dnipro can now perform 20% more tests of biochemical group (e.g. liver tests, kidney tests and others), electrolytes, as well as immunochemical group (e.g. thyroid hormones, reproductive panel, prenatal diagnostics, etc.).

“Synevo Ukraine” (Synevo Ukraine) is the largest network in Ukraine with 317 laboratory centers, seven laboratories (in Kiev, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Vinnitsa, Odessa, Kherson and Dnipro) and more than 1800 employees in 13 countries. The capacity of the network is more than 800 types of testing, annually serving about 4 million customers, performing more than 15.8 million tests. It is part of Medicover, a leading international healthcare and diagnostic services company.

Synevo International Laboratory Network (Synevo) is present in 10 European countries, with laboratories in Germany, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 2017, Synevo Ukraine as part of Medicover was listed on Nasdaq (Stockholm), becoming the first and only medical company in Ukraine to carry out an IPO.

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CSD LAB medical laboratory opens partnership offices in frontline regions of Ukraine

CSD LAB medical laboratory is opening partner laboratory offices in the front-line regions of Ukraine.

The company told Interfax-Ukraine news agency that, in particular, CSD LAB is opening laboratories on their basis together with medical centers.

“We opened partner laboratory offices in the frontline regions of Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka (Donetsk region),” the company specified.

CSD LAB reported that the company opened more than 15 lab offices together with partners during the war, including three in Ternopil, offices in Dnipro, Khmelnytsky, Drohobych, Kamyanets-Podilsky, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lutsk, Chernivtsi, Chernomorsk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Konstantinivka.

Currently there are over 70 laboratory offices and biomaterial collection points in the network all over Ukraine.

CSD LAB – one of the leading laboratories in Ukraine, provides more than 1500 tests – from general blood analysis to determination of genetic disorders in the tumor by NGS method. For 12 years CSD LAB has been one of the largest pathomorphological laboratories in Eastern Europe.

CSD LAB unites six laboratories: pathomorphology, cytomorphology, oncohematology, microbiology, clinical diagnostic laboratory and molecular genetics center. Every year it conducts more than 1.5 million tests.

Production facilities and modern high-tech equipment are located in Kiev and Lviv on a total area of more than 5 thousand square meters, as well as in Moldova and Georgia.

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Unilever will put on sale dairy ice cream grown in laboratory

One of the world giants in the food market, Dutch-British company Unilever is going to produce next year a dairy ice cream, made from cow’s milk, grown in a laboratory.
Next summer, supermarket shelves may be stocked with ice cream “made from cow’s milk without cows. It will be made from milk protein obtained by fermentation, which uses yeast and fungi, among other ingredients, to grow it in vats.
However, natural cow’s milk contains many types of protein, so producing it in the lab with a satisfactory result that allows the product to be used in the same way as “classic” milk is no easy task.
A number of startups have already submitted several prototypes of “lab milk” for consideration by Unilever. The company hopes to commercialize next year a new ice cream under one of its world-famous brands – Ben & Jerry’s, Miko, Magnum, but has not yet specified which one it will choose for the debut.
Unilever explains its idea as the aim to produce the product with less greenhouse gas emissions, particularly methane, which is inevitable in dairy farming, subject to the profitability of the new technology.
However, Unilever is not the first company in the food market, trying to introduce “milk without a cow. Last year, American Starbucks already tried to sell products based on “lab milk” produced by the startup Perfect Day in its cafes in the Seattle area.

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SYNEVO LABORATORY PAYS UAH 35 MLN IN TAXES, FEES IN MARCH-APRIL – SKAVRONSKY

In March-April 2022, the Synevo laboratory paid UAH 35 million in taxes and fees to the budget, commercial director of the Synevo laboratory Mykola Skavronsky said.
“For March and April 2022, the Synevo company still paid about UAH 35 million in taxes and fees to the state,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
Skavronsky also said that in March and April 2022, the Synevo laboratory paid UAH 67 million to its employees “1.5 times more money than the entire revenue for these two months”, the total cash receipts of Synevo during this time amounted to UAH 47 million.
“Financial support for our employees in the first months of the war was provided exclusively at the expense of Synevo’s own reserves,” Skavronsky wrote.
Synevo is the largest network of laboratories in Ukraine, part of the Swedish medical holding Medicover. The Synevo network includes 320 laboratory centers operating in 125 settlements of Ukraine, as well as eight laboratories that perform more than 1,000 types of tests.
Every year, the company’s laboratory centers serve more than 4 million customers.

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LABORATORY FOR PRODUCTION OF COVID TEST SYSTEMS OPENED IN KHARKIV (UKRAINE)

A laboratory for the production of diagnostic test systems was opened in the territory of Ecopolis HTZ business park in Kharkiv on June 24.
According to the press service of Kharkiv City Council, the opening ceremony was attended by secretary of the city council Ihor Terekhov, president of DCH Group, which includes Ecopolis HTZ, Oleksandr Yaroslavsky and chief sanitary doctor of Ukraine Ihor Kuzin.
“I am sure that these test systems will be in demand all over the world. And it is great that young people, our students, who will be able to practice here, mastering new technologies, will work here. We want to ensure that the best specialists stayed in our country,” the press service quotes Terekhov.
According to Yaroslavsky, $ 2 million was invested in the laboratory. It will be engaged in the development and production of molecular biological diagnostic test systems, in particular, PCR tests for the detection of COVID-19, including the new Delta strain, PCR tests for influenza, and in the long term – for cancer.
The next stage in the formation of Ecopolis HTZ, according to Yaroslavsky, will be the presentation of a Kharkiv-made tram, which is scheduled for autumn.
As reported, Ecopolis HTZ business park is a long-term investment project of Oleksandr Yaroslavsky’s DCH Group. It is being created on the basis of Kharkiv Tractor Plant, and the plant itself will become an anchor resident of the industrial cluster.

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SYNEVO MEDICAL LABORATORY CHAIN PLANS TO OPEN UP TO 40 NEW POINTS

The Synevo medical laboratory chain plans to open 30-40 new points in 2021.
“We continue opening our branches in the regions, and the situation with COVID-19 has not influenced this in any way. In 2021 alone, we plan to open 30-40 new points in Ukraine,” Commercial Director of Synevo Mykola Skavronsky said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
According to him, in big cities Synevo opens branches on its own, in small ones – using franchise agreements, “franchisees open outlets according to our standards.”
He also said that “the main problem of regional development is, oddly enough, the lack of suitable premises.”

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