ALT Drawing showing that planetary cell biology is a field that combines environmental sciences and cell biology. Understanding cellular function and its environmental context can be useful in explaining larger-scale systems operating at the multicellular and ecological levels. Furthermore, planetary cell biology provides key insights into how biological systems might adapt, be resilient to, and even mitigate, environmental perturbations associated with the climate crisis, such as changes in temperature, pH, pressure and other conditions.

ALT NIAID sourced image depicting Brain organoid depicting neural stem cells in green and neurons in magenta. Both cell types are abundant, showing normal development.