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  2. Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    The Schuster Laboratory, University of Manchester (a physics laboratory). A laboratory (UK: / l ə ˈ b ɒr ə t ər i /; US: / ˈ l æ b r ə t ɔːr i /; colloquially lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.

  3. Medical laboratory - Wikipedia

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    A medical laboratory or clinical laboratory is a laboratory where tests are conducted out on clinical specimens to obtain information about the health of a patient to aid in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. [1] Clinical medical laboratories are an example of applied science, as opposed to research laboratories that focus on ...

  4. Laboratories of democracy - Wikipedia

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    Laboratories of democracy is a phrase popularized by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann to describe how "a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." [1]

  5. Laboratory safety - Wikipedia

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    Laboratory safety. Many laboratories contain significant risks, and the prevention of laboratory accidents requires great care and constant vigilance. [1] [2] Examples of risk factors include high voltages, high and low pressures and temperatures, corrosive and toxic chemicals and chemical vapours, radiation, fire, explosions, and biohazards ...

  6. Laboratory quality control - Wikipedia

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    Laboratory quality control is designed to detect, reduce, and correct deficiencies in a laboratory's internal analytical process prior to the release of patient results, in order to improve the quality of the results reported by the laboratory. Quality control (QC) is a measure of precision, or how well the measurement system reproduces the ...

  7. Assay - Wikipedia

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    Assay. An assay is an investigative (analytic) procedure in laboratory medicine, mining, pharmacology, environmental biology and molecular biology for qualitatively assessing or quantitatively measuring the presence, amount, or functional activity of a target entity. The measured entity is often called the analyte, the measurand, or the target ...

  8. Good laboratory practice - Wikipedia

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    The Principles of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) are guidelines for managing non-clinical health and environmental studies effectively. [1] They cover how studies are planned, conducted, recorded, and reported. These principles define roles and responsibilities within test facilities, set standards for facilities and equipment, emphasize the ...

  9. Living lab - Wikipedia

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    On a macro level, a Living Lab is a public-private-people partnership consisting of different stakeholders, organized to carry out Living Lab research and Living Lab projects. We propose the term Living Lab constellation to refer to this level. On the meso level, we discern the Living Lab innovation projects that are being carried out within ...