Doesn't this lab sound vaguely familiar to many of you?

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1890- )
By: Rachel Gur-Arie | Published: 2014-06-21
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-1890

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a non-profit research institution that specializes in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, quantitative biology, and genomics. The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences established the CSHL in 1890, to provide scientists with facilities to research Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory. The first mission of CSHL was biological science education. Since 1998, CSHL has housed the Watson School of Biological Sciences, a PhD program dedicated to scientific research. Nobel Laureates who conducted experiments at the CSHL include Barbara McClintock, Alfred Hershey, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Sydney Brenner. Throughout its history, researchers at CSHL have studied embryology, reproductive medicine, and genetics.

In 1889, John D. Jones donated eight acres of land and buildings he owned on the south shore of Cold Spring Harbor, formerly a part of the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Company, to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences to build CSHL... In 1898, Charles Davenport, professor of evolutionary biology at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the first director of CSHL...

In 1902, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Institute in Washington, D.C., as an organization to fund and support exceptional scientific discovery. Davenport requested the Carnegie Institute of Washington to start a genetics research program within CSHL.

...In 1910, Davenport founded the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) at CSHL, which encouraged eugenics research. Eugenics is a theory that holds that controlled reproduction can change a population's genetics, and that human reproduction should be controlled to some extent.