A former leukaemia patient who had his sperm frozen as a teenager has fathered a baby after doctors successfully thawed his sample a record 22 years later.
Stella Biblis was conceived after scientists injected a defrosted sperm into an egg from wife Melodie and implanted it in her uterus
Chris Biblis was 16 when doctors told him that he needed radiotherapy that would leave him sterile and recommended before going ahead with the life-saving treatment that they put a sample of his sperm into cryogenic storage for future use.
Now aged 38, he is celebrating the birth of a healthy baby daughter, Stella, who was conceived after scientists injected a defrosted sperm into an egg from his wife, Melodie, and implanted it in her uterus.
The 22-year lapse between storage in April 1986 and conception in June 2008 is a world record, according to specialists at the US fertility clinic who carried out the procedure.
Comment: Well, that IS a relief. A report funded by one of the makers of the drugs in question found it causes no vision problems. Now everybody who uses Viagra and Cialis can sleep at night, knowing they are not going to go blind. PLEASE, are we all THAT silly.