CATCHFIRE moves mitochondria to decide a neuron’s fate

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...

CATCHFIRE to screen bacterial protein secretion

CATCHFIRE in a novel, versatile and high-throughput screening method for protein secretion in Bacillus subtilis.  A team of Nanjing Agricultural University hence is the first to disclose CATCHFIRE in bacteria.  Initially developed as a self-reporting protein...