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 Embryos speak multiple languages. 

They can communicate through chemistry, which has been known for a long time, and as today's guest will describe, they can also detect physical features of their environment and alter their biology in response--which is to say they are mechanosensitive. They can generate forces that deform their surroundings, and they can respond to the force cues around them. We'll talk more today about the experiments that allowed us all to witness this ability in the viral video that captured implantation of a human embryo into a 3D matrix for the first time. 

If you want to see the video,  https://ibecbarcelona.eu/human-embryo-implantation-recorded-in-real-time-for-the-first-time/

Also, in the paper, available here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr5199 there is a supplmentary section that has more videos that show the 3D displacement, check out adr5199!