Helixworks Technologies

Helixworks Technologies We put the data in DNA Our job is to enable researchers and engineers to tinker with DNA.

We spend our time designing and engineering a novel DNA synthesis platform that is accessible to all levels of research labs and independent researchers. Our approach is to drive down the costs and increase speed of turnaround times, so that curious researchers and engineers need not cut back on experimenting. We aspire to enable them make breakthroughs that help all of humanity to lead a rich and

fulfilling life, such as, safe guard the world's food supply, enable sustainable production of chemicals, develop better medicine and therapy.

Companies can’t afford to fail.Academia can. And that’s how we make real progress.💡 Prof. Heinis on why research labs ar...
31/05/2025

Companies can’t afford to fail.
Academia can. And that’s how we make real progress.

💡 Prof. Heinis on why research labs are critical to deeptech breakthroughs like DNA data storage.

🎙️ Listen to the episode → https://www.helix.works/blog/dive-into-deeptech-moss

🎧 Dive into Deeptech | MoSS Edition, available wherever you get your podcasts

“They thought we were crazy.”Now they’re curious.🧠 Prof. Thomas Heinis reflects on how far the DNA storage field has com...
30/05/2025

“They thought we were crazy.”
Now they’re curious.

🧠 Prof. Thomas Heinis reflects on how far the DNA storage field has come.

🎙️ Listen to the episode → https://www.helix.works/blog/dive-into-deeptech-moss

🎧 Dive into Deeptech | MoSS Edition, available wherever you get your podcasts

29/05/2025

DNA doesn’t replace SSDs or RAM.
But for archiving? It might just be unbeatable.

Prof. Thomas Heinis explains why DNA is perfectly suited for long-term, low-access storage, and how it could redefine digital preservation.

📼 Tape was good. DNA is better.

🔗 Listen here: https://www.helix.works/blog/dive-into-deeptech-moss
🎧 Dive into Deeptech | MoSS Edition, available wherever you get your podcasts

27/05/2025

What if your next database wasn’t on silicon...but in DNA?

In EP03 of Dive into Deeptech | MoSS Edition, Prof. Thomas Heinis (Imperial College Computing) walks us through their work, where relational databases meet molecular storage systems.

From using PostgreSQL to structure and encode data for DNA storage, to querying structured data with PCR, his team is redefining what it means to store and compute with molecules.

🔗 Listen here: https://www.helix.works/blog/dive-into-deeptech-moss
🎧 Dive into Deeptech | MoSS Edition, available wherever you get your podcasts

Podcast Partner: of Work
Host: Eshna Gogia
Editor: Dr. Uday Gowda

DNA for supply chain authenticationWant to verify where your salmon came from?Encode the source in DNA.From fish to phar...
16/05/2025

DNA for supply chain authentication

Want to verify where your salmon came from?
Encode the source in DNA.

From fish to pharma, DNA-based authentication is coming.

🔗 Listen here: https://www.helix.works/blog/dive-into-deeptech-moss
🎧 Dive into Deeptech | MoSS Edition, available wherever you get your podcasts

The same standard that revolutionised digital photography is now laying the foundation for molecular data storage. The J...
15/05/2025

The same standard that revolutionised digital photography is now laying the foundation for molecular data storage. The JPEG DNA initiative is developing an international standard for storing image data on synthetic DNA, set to be published in 2026.

https://jpeg.org/jpegdna/index.html

DNA will never go obsolete. We’ll always know how to read DNA. Because it’s in our blood, literally.🔗 Listen here: https...
15/05/2025

DNA will never go obsolete.

We’ll always know how to read DNA. Because it’s in our blood, literally.

🔗 Listen here: https://www.helix.works/blog/dive-into-deeptech-moss
🎧 Dive into Deeptech | MoSS Edition, available wherever you get your podcasts

14/05/2025

DNA doesn’t just store data. It stores trust.

Prof. Zohar Yakhini explains why DNA is more than just an archival medium. From labelling products with embedded manuals to authenticating supply chains, the applications go far beyond data archival.

🎧 Listen to the full conversation here → https://www.helix.works/blog/dive-into-deeptech-moss

13/05/2025

🎙️ In EP02 of Dive into Deeptech | MoSS Edition, we sit down with two of the sharpest minds in DNA data storage:

🔹 Prof. Zohar Yakhini (Reichman University & Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
🔹 Prof. Eitan Yaakobi (DNA Storage Lab @ Technion)

In this episode, we talk about:
- What the future of DNA-based storage systems might look like
- Why composite DNA letters could massively boost information density
- The challenges: insertions, deletions, and the codes that can’t (yet) fix them
- What it takes to make DNA readable decades or centuries from now
- Building collaborative tools to analyse synthesis error profiles
- How academia and industry must work together before the tech matures. and more!

If you’re building or thinking in this space, this one’s dense, brilliant packed with full of insight.

🔗 Listen here: https://www.helix.works/blog/dive-into-deeptech-moss
🎧 Dive into Deeptech | MoSS Edition, available wherever you get your podcasts

Podcast Partner:
Host: Eshna Gogia
Editor: Dr. Uday Gowda

05/05/2025

🎥 Hollywood is losing films. Not because they’re forgotten, but because the storage media can’t keep up.

In this clip from Dive into Deeptech | MoSS Edition, Dr. Raja Appuswamy explains how even blockbuster archives are vulnerable to tape decay and obsolescence, and why DNA might be the fix.

🔗 Full episode here → https://www.helix.works/blog/dive-into-deeptech-moss

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