When I was working on my PhD at Harvard, my work was done at the Harvard Biological Laboratories, usually called the Harvard BioLabs.
https://college.harvard.edu/about/campus/exploring-bio-labs
There was nothing sinister about research at the BioLabs. I published everything openly in my PhD thesis and two highly-cited papers. Other BioLabs researchers also published everything openly.
It is too bad that “BioLabs” has taken on such an evil connotation! And it is very bad that there are disreputable researchers who are working to concoct vile diseases to plague humanity!
Because most people are ignorant of the important difference between bio lab and bio-weapons lab.
The United States houses at least 1,500 to 1,600 registered high-containment biological laboratories (Biosafety Levels 3 and 4), though the exact grand total of all bio labs is unknown. Because basic labs (BSL-1 and BSL-2) exist in almost every university, hospital, and high school, they are not centrally tracked.