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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Tobi Thomas Health and inequalities correspondent

World’s ‘oldest baby’ born from embryo frozen in 1994

Closeup of IVF as an egg is fertilised with sperm
IVF is a type of fertility treatment where eggs are retrieved from a woman’s ovaries and fertilised with sperm in a laboratory setting. Photograph: nevodka/Shutterstock

The world’s “oldest baby” has been born in the US from an embryo that was frozen in 1994, it has been reported.

Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born on 26 July in Ohio to Lindsey and Tim Pierce, using an “adopted” embryo from Linda Archerd, 62, from more than 30 years ago.

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