An unusual world record has been set in Tennessee (USA) – the birth of a healthy baby after the longest embryo storage in a cryobank in history. And when we say the longest, we do not mean some 10 years.It is about 25 years!

This is reported by CNN.25-year-old Tina Gibson was carrying a baby after in vitro fertilization. Her husband suffers from infertility. One day, the couple learned about the possibility of transferring frozen embryos.

On October 14, 1992, an embryo from an anonymous donor was chosen and placed in a cryobank after a series of tests. Tina gave birth to Emma, a healthy three-kilogram girl, in November.

The birth lasted approximately 20 hours. “I, too, am 25 years old. We could have been best friends if things had gone differently,” Gibson said. “I don’t care about the record right now; all I wanted was a baby.”

“The probability of survival of an implanted frozen embryo is 25-30 percent,” according to the National Center for Embryo Protection’s embryology laboratory. In the Gibsons’ case, the first attempt was successful. Although American IVF clinics are not required to report the age of the embryo, scientists believe that this case is exceptional…