# Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
**Domain:** Biology / Genetics / Neuroscience
**Doc Type:** Institution Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[George Church]], [[Synthetic Biology]], [[Darwinian Evolution|evolution]], [[Team Leela]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]
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## Definition
**Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory** is a private research and education institution with major historical and contemporary work in genetics, molecular biology, cancer and neuroscience.
## Corpus Context
Its place in the ontology is both scientific and historical: biological information became increasingly legible, manipulable and computational, making molecular biology a major precursor to programmable biology.
## Directory Context
This institution is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] and the analytic constellation [[Team Leela]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory](https://www.cshl.edu/)
## STEVE Routing
This node appears in [[articles/STEVE|STEVE]] within the article’s scientific, intellectual, or institutional topology. Inclusion records the connection documented in that article; it does not by itself establish official membership in [[Team Leela]], shared intent, or a coordinated program.
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