FAST goes green: versatile protein imaging in plants

Jun 8, 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...

pFAST in C. elegans for the first time ever

Jan 12, 2026 | FAST and splitFAST

pFAST in C. elegans for reversible multicolor labeling.  A new microPublication Biology study shows tandem pFAST enables reversible, multicolor chemogenetic fluorescence labeling in dissected C. elegans tissues. Wang, Langevin, Chen and Bai (Fred Hutchinson Cancer...

CATCHFIRE moves mitochondria to decide a neuron’s fate

Dec 22, 2025 | 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...