Birth from frozen eggs and sperms

Birth from frozen eggs and sperms

Doctors in Singapore have achieved the world's first successful birth of a human being conceived from eggs and sperm that were both frozen. Actually the procedure produced birth of twins.

Dr. Chia Choy May, led the medical team conducting the procedure at Thomson Medical Center.

There have been many births using either frozen eggs and non frozen sperms and frozen sperms and non frozen eggs. But its for the first time that both frozen eggs and sperms have produced live human beings. The cells are joined using in vitro fertilization and then implanted into the uterus.

The parents of the Singapore twins had a complicated health history than usual. The father's semen contained no sperm, and the mother could only ovulate with the help of drugs.

Doctors had to surgically obtain sperm cells from the father's testicular tissue and search through it for live, mature sperm. It took the team four hours to find eight usable sperm cells, which had to be frozen in order to preserve them.

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