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'Longest-frozen' embryo born 24 years on [bbc.com]

A baby has been born from an embryo frozen for nearly 25 years - possibly the longest gap between conception and birth since IVF began. The embryo was donated by a family in the US and has become the first child for a woman who would herself have been only one when the baby was conceived.

The donated embryo that would become Emma Wren Gibson, a healthy baby girl, was thawed in March and transferred to mum Tina Gibson's uterus. Emma was born in November.

"Do you realise I'm only 25? This embryo and I could have been best friends," Mrs Gibson, now 26, of eastern Tennessee told CNN. "I just wanted a baby. I don't care if it's a world record or not," she added.

Also at CNN [cnn.com].

2010 case study for a 42-year-old who received a >19-year-old embryo: Live birth from a frozen–thawed pronuclear stage embryo almost 20 years after its cryopreservation [fertstert.org] (open, DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.08.056) (DX [doi.org])

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