CATCHFIRE moves mitochondria to decide a neuron’s fate

Sep 3, 2026 | Catchfire

CATCHFIRE decides which sister cell becomes a neuron. In a new Nature Communications 2025 paper, our fluorogenic molecular-glue technology is used not to image but to act: it physically displaces mitochondria during cell division to control the fate of the daughter...

FAST goes green: versatile protein imaging in plants

Sep 3, 2026 | FAST and splitFAST

FAST in plants for the first time. Already a workhorse in mammalian cells, yeast and anaerobes, the fluorescence-activating and absorption-shifting tag (FAST) is now disclosed as a versatile protein marker for live plant cell imaging. A collaborative French effort...