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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

'Like a sci-fi movie': US baby born from 30-year-old frozen embryo breaks record

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'Like a sci-fi movie': US baby born from 30-year-old frozen embryo breaks record

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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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It is believed to be longest that an embryo has been frozen before resulting in a successful live birth.
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  • Nougat@fedia.io
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    For the “life begins at conception” folks, does this mean that the baby was born 30 years old?

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      Oh hell yeah. Start pumping them out after 70 years so they can collect Social Security from birth.

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        A history teacher in the 22nd century: “And that, class, is how we finally implemented UBI.”

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          It isn’t perfect, but I’ll take it.

    • Magister@lemmy.world
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      time for a tax audit, he never paid taxes!!!

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        They never had taxes to pay with no income?

        If anything it’s a lot of past owed benefits that were never claimed.

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      Actually I think it does because the article mentions a Christian group that does embryo adoption. They said they were “saving lives”

    • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
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      yes

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    The story gets less and less happy as it goes. Particularly the part where she insisted the embryo only go to a white Christian family.

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      And that she wants to be involved in the kid’s life. Wonder what kind of relationship she has with her actual daughter.

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    It’s gonna be creepy when babies are born from 100+ year old sperm/embryos.

    I wonder if, in the future, babies made from old dna will be more desirable due to all the environmental and chemical impact on our dna.

    Like, “my baby doesn’t have three eyes because it’s from 300 year old dna”

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      We can print DNA iirc, and I’d imagine that tech will only improve with time, so if we really needed to keep some DNA from before some event that degrades all DNA afterwards, it might just be kept around as a computer file and synthesized as needed rather than frozen in living cells.

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      Inb4 the knuckle-draggers claim they only want pre-covid vaxx blood.

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        You’re way too late with that one unfortunately

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        I only bathe in the blood of babies born from embryos frozen in the 1990s.

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      Giving birth to a kid born from your seventh great grandmother’s egg sounds like quite an odd scenario

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    Why though

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      Because, I shit you not, it’s cheaper than adoption in the US.

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