MDCK (Madin-Darby canine kidney) epithelial cells are often used to explore the science of cell mobility Thomas Deerinck, NCMIR/Science Photo Library
The chemicals that cells leach onto their path may determine how far they can crawl.
Cells crawl for many reasons, including to help heal a wound or, in the case of cancer cells, to metastasise. But scientists still have a relatively poor understanding of what determines how far a cell can travel or what route it will take.
Emiliano Perez Ipiña at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and his colleagues wanted to investigate …
