Woman, 26, Has Baby Born From Record Breaking 24-Year-Old Frozen Embryo
December 19, 2017 at 12:22 pm
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — An East Tennessee couple has welcomed a baby girl who grew from
the longest-frozen embryo to ever result in a birth.
Benjamin and Tina Gibson's daughter, Emma Wren, weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces when she came into the world on November 25.
Prior to being transferred into Tina's uterus at the National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville earlier this year, the embryo Emma grew from had been
cryopreserved for more than 24 years, according to a news release.
And, according to research staff at the University of Tennessee Preston Medical Library, that makes her the all-time record holder for the longest-frozen embryo to result in birth.
Interestingly,
Emma's embryo was frozen on Oct. 14, 1992, when
Tina was just a year-and-a-half old.....