It has long been known that our bodies derive energy from sugar. Researchers at RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau have now discovered that sugar breakdown produces an intermediate product that is also crucial for the motility of human cells. The new findings, published in Nature Cell Biology, ar e likely to be relevant for understanding several biological processes, including cell migration in embryonic development, the migration of metastatic cancer cells and wound healing. ...read more read less