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Laboratory Life
Laboratory Life is a 1979 book by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar arguing that scientific facts are socially constructed, based on fieldwork at the Salk Institute.
Laboratory medicine
Laboratory medicine (clinical pathology) is the medical discipline of analyzing blood, urine, and tissue specimens for diagnosis. Covers the total testing process, preanalytical error dominance, EQA, CLIA, and CAP/ISO 15189 accreditation.
Laboratory mouse
The laboratory mouse is a house mouse of defined genetic background bred for biomedical research; its inbred strains, first created by Clarence Little in 1909, allow researchers worldwide to run comparable experiments.
Laboratory quality control
Laboratory quality control: IQC monitors precision within a lab via control charts (Levey-Jennings, Westgard rules), while EQA/proficiency testing independently compares accuracy between laboratories under ISO 15189.
Laboratory rat
Laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus), domesticated brown rat; second most used research mammal after the mouse. Wistar (1906), Sprague-Dawley, BN strains; 200+ inbred strains; new GRCr8 genome (2024).
Laboratory Response Network
The Laboratory Response Network is a network of US and international laboratories, established by the CDC in 1999 to respond to biological and chemical threats.
Laboratory safety
Laboratory safety is the system of engineering controls, administrative rules, personal protective equipment, and safety culture that protects people, samples, and facilities in scientific laboratories.
Laboratory water bath
A laboratory water bath is a heated container of water that incubates samples gently at controlled temperatures, typically up to 60 °C, in biology and chemistry labs.
Laboratory-developed test
A laboratory-developed test (LDT) is an in vitro diagnostic designed, manufactured, and used within a single CLIA-certified laboratory, common in genetic testing, oncology, and molecular diagnostics.
Labou Vallis
Labou Vallis is a channel system on Mars in the eastern Memnonia region, approved in 1985, forming one of two large branches of Mangala Valles.
Laboum (라붐)
LABOUM (라붐) is a South Korean girl group that debuted August 2014 under Global H Media (NH Media and Nega Network), a third-generation act known for "Journey to Atlantis," "Hwi Hwi," and its 2021 reverse-charting resurgence.
Labour and social-democratic parties of Papua New Guinea
The labor and social-democratic parties of Papua New Guinea are small union-linked parties, most prominently the Papua New Guinea Labour Party, tied to the PNGTUC.
Labour and Socialist International
The Labour and Socialist International (LSI, Sozialistische Arbeiter-Internationale), socialist and social democratic party international founded in Hamburg in May 1923, successor to the Second International, rival to the Comintern, ended 1940, succeeded by the 1951 Socialist International.
Labour Day
Labour Day (Labor Day, International Workers' Day) is a workers' holiday on May 1 in about 172 countries, rooted in the 1886 eight-hour strike and Haymarket affair; the US and Canada observe it the first Monday of September since 1894, and New Zealand, Australia, and Japan use other dates.
Labour economics
Labour economics, also known as economics of labor, is the field of economics that studies wages, employment, and unemployment, including unions, minimum wages, and employer monopsony power.
Labour Force Survey
The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the UK's largest household survey, run by the Office for National Statistics since 1973, providing the official measures of employment and unemployment.
Labour in India
Labour in India is the employment, wages, and regulation of a workforce of roughly 600 million people, 80 to 90 percent of whom work without contracts or social security.
Labour law
Labour law: the legislation and regulations defining employers' and workers' rights, individually and collectively. Also called employment law. Covers the employment relationship, collective bargaining, ILO standards since the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, and labour law reform assistance.
Labour movement
The labor movement, also known as organized labor or the workers' movement, is workers' collective organization through unions, political parties, and legislation to win higher wages and better working conditions.
Labour Party (Ireland)
The Labour Party (Páirtí an Lucht Oibre) is a center-left political party in Ireland, founded in 1912 as the political wing of the Irish trade union movement.
Labour Party (Lithuania)
Darbo partija, Lithuania's center-left populist party founded in 2003 by businessman Viktor Uspaskich, topped the 2004 Seimas vote with 28.44%, governed 2004–2006 and 2012–2016, and was convicted of fraudulent accounting.
Labour Party (Netherlands)
Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA), the Dutch social-democratic Labour Party, founded 9 February 1946 in Amsterdam from the SDAP, VDB, and CDU. Led governments under Drees, Den Uyl, and Kok; merged with GroenLinks into Progressief Nederland in 2026.
Labour Party (Nigeria)
Labour Party (LP), Nigeria: social-democratic party founded 2002 by the Nigeria Labour Congress as Party for Social Democracy; motto Equal Opportunity and Social Justice; surged in 2023 with Peter Obi's 6.1 million votes, later led by Nenadi Usman after a leadership crisis.
Labour Party (Norway)
Arbeiderpartiet (Norwegian Labour Party), founded 1887 in Arendal, is Norway's largest social democratic party; in government 44 years, led by Jonas Gahr Støre since 2014, heading a minority government since 2021.
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party (UK), founded 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee, is Britain's centre-left party; first government 1924 under Ramsay MacDonald, first majority 1945 under Attlee, NHS creator, 418-seat 1997 peak, and Andy Burnham elected leader in 2026.
Labour Party (工党) (Hong Kong)
Labour Party (工黨), Hong Kong pro-democracy social-democratic party founded March 2011 by Lee Cheuk-yan and other unionists; won 4 LegCo seats in 2012, 1 in 2016; left of pan-democratic camp.
Labour Party Young Socialists
Labour Party Young Socialists (LPYS), British Labour Party youth wing 1965 to early 1990s, successor to the Young Socialists of 1960; led by Militant tendency from 1970, reorganised under Kinnock in 1986, dissolved with 7,250 members and replaced by Young Labour.
Labour power
Labour power (German: Arbeitskraft) is, in Marxian economics, a worker's mental and physical capacity to work, sold as a commodity; Marx used it to explain profit and exploitation.
Labour service (Hungary)
Labour service (Hungarian: munkaszolgálat) was the unarmed military service Hungary assigned to Jews and other men deemed politically unreliable between 1939 and 1945, in which roughly 50,000 to 70,000 died.
Labour Students
Labour Students is the student wing of the UK Labour Party, also formerly NOLS, a federation of campus Labour Clubs with its own constitution, no affiliation fee, factional committee elections, and a 2019 NEC abolition attempt.