Cryopreservation

A 39-year-old woman who had undergone an ovarian tissue transplant, became the first in Greece to give birth to a baby boy last Saturday (June 8).

The boy, weighing 3 kilograms and 20 grams was delivered by caesarean section.

The couple announced the other day that they have also moved into egg cryopreservation

An Alabama university temporarily halted in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments on Wednesday after the high court in the southern U.S. state ruled that frozen embryos outside the womb are children.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) said it had paused IVF treatments "as it evaluates the Alabama Supreme Court's decision that a cryopreserved embryo is a human being."

Freezing living cells is a good way to preserve them for much longer than at room temperature, but traditional freezing damages those cells as ice crystals form