Friday, November 25, 2022

Twin babies born after breaking record of longest-frozen embryos (frozen for almost 30 years)

Amazing stuff! 

To put this in perspective: Zoe Leyland, was the first baby from an embryo frozen after IVF, was born in Australia in 1984.

"... The previous record holder was Molly Gibson, who was born in 2020 from an embryo that had been frozen for nearly 27 years. ...
For nearly three decades, the embryos sat in storage in tiny straws preserved in liquid nitrogen at nearly -200 degrees celsius. The embryos were kept at a west coast fertility lab until 2007, when the couple who created them donated the embryos to the National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, in hopes that another couple could use them. ...
The embryos were thawed on February 28, 2022. Of the five that were thawed, two were unusable. Not a bad number relative to the fact that there is about an 80 percent survival rate in the thawing of frozen embryos. ...
The three embryos were then implanted into [mother]'s uterus on March 2, 29 years and 10 months after they were frozen, but only two of the transfers were successful.
Studies have found that 25 to 40 percent of frozen embryo fertilization results in birth. ..."

Twin babies born after breaking record of longest-frozen embryos - The Jerusalem Post Lydia and Timothy Ridgway, twins born on October 31, 2022, hold the record for the longest-frozen embryos ever born alive, according to the National Embryo Donation Center.

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