Saturday 16 October 2010

Baby Born from 20 year old Embryo

Amplify’d from www.npr.org
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In 1990 a couple underwent In Vitro Fertilization. They eventually had a healthy baby. They also, as is common, had a number of microscopic embryos that hadn't been implanted, but were viable. They decided to anonymously donate them.

Now, one of those embryos has produced a little boy, 20 years after being created. This May, a 42-year-old woman gave birth to that boy, as reported in the journal Fertility and Sterility.

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