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Margaret Rainey, seen outside her home in Chicago on Dec. 22, 2021, received a kidney donation from her daughter. Rainey participated in a clinical trial done by Northwestern that allows her to live without immunosuppressant drugs.

CHICAGO — Before her mother’s kidney transplant, Arianna Barrett watched a medical professional carefully extract stem cells from her own neck with a feeling that she was observing scientific developments in real time.

Since her mother was diagnosed with kidney disease, Barrett, a 36-year-old Chicago teacher, always knew she wanted to donate a kidney to her mother, even though her mother, Margaret Rainey, had reservations about her daughter having a major surgery.

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