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A baby is born from an embryo frozen for 20 years

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bebe-embrion-congelado In the United States, a healthy baby has been born from a frozen embryo for about 20 years . His 42-year-old mother had undergone unsuccessful fertility treatments for the past decade. Last year his doctors presented him with a final option: implanting two embryos that had been frozen for 19 years and 7 months, donated by an anonymous couple in 1990. One of them was successfully implanted and has become a healthy male who was born weighing 3 kilograms last May at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk (USA).

This is the first time that an embryo has been successfully implanted after being frozen for so long, according to the scientific journal Fertility and Sterility . Dr. Sergio Oehninger, the mother's gynecologist, assures that keeping the embryos frozen in liquid nitrogen does not affect their viability, even if they are kept for 40 years.

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