article_snippet: (CNN)Share, and your gift will be multiplied.
article_snippet: I thought I was going to help this one person who I don't know, but the fact that so many people can have a life extension, that's pretty big,Zully Broussard Zully Broussard told CNN affiliate KGO.
article_snippet: But the power that multiplied Zully Broussard's gift was data processing of genetic profiles from donor-recipient pairs.
article_snippet: That's called a paired donation.
article_snippet: That's a bit of a surgical square dance, where four people cross over partners temporarily and everybody goes home smiling.
article_snippet: a donorwent to a recipient, who was paired with a donor.
article_snippet: Jacobs paid it forward with Jacobs programming skills, creating MatchGrid, a program that genetically matches up donor pairs or chains quickly.
article_snippet: The significance of a donor is that the chain opens up possibilities for pairing compatible donors and recipients," said Dr. Steven Katznelson.
article_snippet: Where there had been only three or four options, with the inclusion of a donor, we had 140 options to consider for matching donors and recipients.