Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. After struggling for eight years to have a baby, Shannon Petersen and her husband decided to try in vitro fertilization (IVF) in ...
A baby boy born last week to an Ohio couple developed from an embryo that had been frozen for more than 30 years in what is believed to be a record length of storage time before a birth. In what’s ...
The “world’s oldest baby” has been born from an "adopted" embryo created in 1994. This week we welcomed a record-breaking baby to the world. Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, who arrived over the weekend, ...
It’s not always easy to choose whether to store, donate or discard extra IVF embryos. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in ...