Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo
by est31 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:16AM
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In the very first stage of embryonic development, during cleavage, all cells of the clump are totipotent, meaning that if you took out a single cell, you could create a human from it. The article doesn't say at which stage the embryo implanted was, but likely it was in that early stage.
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Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo
by julianlam on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:35AM
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27 years ago, we can infer based on trends at the time that it would have been frozen at day 3 (vs day 5 which is more common now depending on the clinic).
It may be at the morula stage of embryonic development.