In the US state of Tennessee ,twin babies have been born from embryos frozen more than 30 years ago. A US couple has broken a record by bringing home twins from embryos frozen in April 1992.
As per a BBC report, this rare moment is believed to be a new record for the longest-frozen embryos ever to result in a successful live birth. The embryos were stored at around -128C (-200F) in liquid nitrogen on 22 April 1992.
The ‘world’s oldest babies’—the twins, were born on October 31 to Rachel and Philip Ridgeway who are parents to four children between the ages 8, 6, 3, and almost 2.
The twins Lydia and Timothy Ridgeway are the longest-frozen embryos to give birth to a living child according to the National Embryo Donation Center, a private faith-based organisation which says that it has helped birth more than 1,200 infants from donated embryos.
As per reports, National Embryo Donation Center ‘s previous record-holder was Molly Gibson who was born in 2020 from an embryo that had been frozen for nearly 27 years.
As per further reports thirty years ago ,the embryos were donated by an unnamed donor couple who used in vitro fertilization (IVF) and were already cryopreserved at 200 degrees below zero.
The embroyos had been frozen on April 22, 1992, and had been kept in cold storage at a fertility lab on the US west coast until 2007 when the couple donated them to the NEDC in Knoxville, Tennessee to allow another couple to use them instead.
The father of the twins , Philip Ridgeway told CNN, “I was five years old when God gave life to Lydia and Timothy, and he’s been preserving that life ever since.”
