Among Mitalipov's secrets: stimulating reprogramming activity by priming the eggs with caffeine and by precisely dosing them with chemicals that coil and uncoil DNA's twisted strands, and applying a gentle electric jolt to get the egg to begin dividing. (discovermagazine.com)
This is done by giving electric jolts or by manually stretching the polymer scaffolding that anchors the cells. (discovermagazine.com)
Following Penfield's example, Fried occasionally does studies that involve stimulating brain cells with minute electric jolts. (discovermagazine.com)