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Chinese test tube baby born from frozen embryo after 12 years

He was fertilised more than 12 years ago

A healthy test tube baby was born Wednesday in northwest China's Shaanxi Province from an embryo frozen 12 years ago, a record on the Chinese mainland.

On Wednesday morning, a 40-year-old woman gave birth to her second son, weighing 3,440 grams at birth at Tangdu Hospital in provincial capital Xi'an.

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