Microsoft launches Quine, a biology research system it says passed wet-lab validation

Microsoft Research introduced Quine on September 29, a multimodal world model of biology paired with an experimental harness, currently an early-stage research effort.

Working with the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, the team says it used the system to prioritize compounds predicted to drive therapeutic tumor-state shifts and validated several top-ranked candidates across multiple wet-lab assays. The post gives no compound counts, assay types or controls.

Microsoft states Quine is for research only, not clinical use, with access to expand later through products like Microsoft Discovery and a Quine Fellows program for a cohort of scientists.