Molly Gibson is an American girl widely known for being frozen as an embryo for 28 years before being born on October 26, 2020. [1] She holds the world record for the longest-frozen embryo to ever come to birth. [2] [3] [4]
Molly Gibson is an American girl widely known for being frozen as an embryo for 28 years before being born on October 26, 2020. [1] She holds the world record for the longest-frozen embryo to ever come to birth. [2] [3] [4]
After being donated by a couple in 1992, the embryo of Molly was frozen and placed in a cryogenic freezer. [5] The embryo was thawed and transferred to the uterus of 28-year-old Tina Gibson in February 2020. Tina, born in April 1991, was under 2 years old when the original couple donated Molly's embryo to a clinic in the Midwest. [6] The couple had earlier adopted the embryo of Emma, a 24-year-old embryo which was the oldest human embryo in history to have been born, until Molly. [7] [8]
In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation where an egg is combined with sperm in vitro. The process involves monitoring and stimulating a patient's ovulatory process, removing an ovum or ova from their ovaries and letting sperm fertilise them in a culture medium in a laboratory. After the fertilised egg (zygote) undergoes embryo culture for 2–6 days, it is transferred by catheter into the uterus, with the intention of establishing a successful pregnancy.
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