--- title: Summer 2021 description: Summer 2021 image: https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/hubfs/CC%20Magazine/Summer%202021/Homepage/SU21-MagazineCover-Social.jpg --- [![CCF-2021-Summer-Logo-Mobile](https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/hs-fs/hubfs/CC%20Magazine/Summer%202021/Homepage/CCF-2021-Summer-Logo-Mobile.png?noresize&width=224&height=38&name=CCF-2021-Summer-Logo-Mobile.png) ![CCF-SU21-Logo-Desktop-2](https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/hs-fs/hubfs/CC%20Magazine/Summer%202021/Homepage/CCF-SU21-Logo-Desktop-2.png?noresize&width=552&height=65&name=CCF-SU21-Logo-Desktop-2.png)](https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/2021-summer) [Donate](https://give.ccf.org/CCMAG) # [Regenerative Medicine to the Rescue](https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/2021-summer/regenerative-medicine-to-the-rescue?hsLang=en) # [Regenerative Medicine to the Rescue](https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/2021-summer/regenerative-medicine-to-the-rescue?hsLang=en) New cell therapies offer healing and hope where other approaches can’t reach. This connective tissue progenitor cell was isolated from bone marrow in the lab of George Muschler, MD. 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