section_path: Cellular processes/Motility/Navigation, control and communication
section_name: Navigation, control and communication
paragraph_text: Navigation, control and communication
  
  In August 2020, scientists described one way cells—in particular cells of a slime mold and mouse pancreatic cancer-derived cells—are able to navigate efficiently through a body and identify the best routes through complex mazes: generating gradients after breaking down diffused chemoattractants which enable them to sense upcoming maze junctions before reaching them, including around corners.