An Israeli woman has given birth to healthy twins from embryos fertilized 12 years earlier, in what doctors said Wednesday was the first successful implantation of embryos frozen for so long. The twin boy and girl were born nine months ago, said Doctor Ariel Revel of the Hadassah Hospital’s in-vitro-fertilization unit. Their 39-year-old mother gave birth to twins 12 years ago from the same batch of frozen embryos. “This is the longest recorded time,” said Revel. He said according to medical literature, the previous record was a successful birth from an embryo frozen for seven years.
