Jacob Mayer, PhD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Eastern Virginia Medical School and director of the embryology laboratory at the EVMS Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine, appeared on CNN's "American Morning" Tuesday, Oct. 12, to discuss a baby born from an embryo frozen for almost 20 years.

The mother, a patient of Sergio Oehninger, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, received the frozen embryo from a couple who had donated embryos after a successful in vitro fertilization treatment in 1990. Previously, healthy babies had been born from embryos frozen for 13 years.

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View full article on this case in the Journal of Fertility and Sterility.

Drs. Mayer and Oehninger, along with their colleagues, published a report in 2008 that analyzed more than 11,00 frozen human embryos. The length of storage time showed no significant effect on postthaw survival, and there was no significant impact on the duration of storage on clinical pregnancies, miscarriages, live birth rates and implantations.

View full text of the study in the Journal of Fertility and Sterility.