American gave birth to a child from an embryo frozen 24 a year ago 

26-year-old Tina Gibson gave birth to a girl from a donated embryo that had been frozen for 24 years, at the moment it is the longest embryo freezing period from which a child could be born.

The baby Emma Wren was conceived in 1992, but the embryo was frozen instead of implanted, reports Daily Mail.

Tina, who was born in 1991, could not conceive a child with her husband due to cystic fibrosis from which her spouse suffers. Therefore, the couple decided to accept a frozen embryo from the East Tennessee National Embryo Donation Center. This process is similar to adoption, but the child grows inside the foster mother.

In March, 2017, Emma's embryo was thawed, and then donated to Tina and her husband, Benjamin.

After the standard 40-week pregnancy without deviations 25 November Tina gave birth to a girl in a natural way. The baby weighed six pounds and eight ounces (2950 g), the girl's height was 20 inches (about 51 cm).

Prior to this, the longest embryo freezing period from which a child was born was 19 years.

Experts say that this successful birth of Emma gives reason to "believe that the life of the embryo can be infinite."

Benjamin and Tina married in 2010, when the woman was 19 years old and the man was 26. They immediately began thinking about having a child, and since Benjamin suffers from cystic fibrosis, a fatal respiratory disease that is fatal in patients after 30 years of age, — the newlyweds did not want to waste time.

Since fertility is often impossible or very difficult for patients suffering from this disease, Tina and Benjamin decided to adopt the baby. In 2016, Tina's father heard about the possibility of adopting an embryo, a couple liked this idea.

When an embryo was offered to the adoptive parents at the National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville, Tina hesitated because the age difference between her and the embryo was less than a year.

Experts noted that they are very pleased with the result of the experiment, since it turned out that an embryo frozen 24,5 a year ago, using old methods of early cryopreservation of slow freezing on the first day of development at the pronuclear stage, can survive with the 100-percent continuation of proper development.

In the United States, from 700 thousands to more than 1 million human embryos are currently stored.

In theory, embryos can be frozen for centuries and then, after proper defrosting and implantation, develop into a child.

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