Science Wonder: New-Born Is 27 Years-old, Technically

The record-breaking baby is 27 years old and is just 18 months younger than her mother, technically. In a great wonder of science, Molly was born from an embryo that was frozen in October 1992, just 18 months after her mother Tina was born in April 1991

Now, technically, she is 27 years old, though most of her age is as an embryo. Her sister Emma Wren spent 24 years frozen as an embryo before she was born in 2017.

Tina calls her new-born baby their ‘little miracle’. The researchers at the University of Tennessee Preston Medical Library, Molly broke the record and entered history books as the longest-frozen embryo known that resulted in a live birth.

The newborn baby Molly Everette Gibson broke the previous record held by her own sister, who was 24 years-old when born in 2017. Both the embryos were frozen together and are full genetic siblings. They have been frozen three years apart at the National Embryo Donation Center and later they were transferred into Tina’s Uterus. The biological parents of the girls are unknown.

Tina’s husband Benjamin is infertile due to cystic fibrosis and the couple approached NEDC after trying to have a child for five years. Tina recalled turning down the option of conceiving with a donor embryo, as it sounded ‘crazy’. Tina had known about the 24 years frozen embryo on the day of transfer into her and she says she trusted Dr. Jeffrey Keenan.

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