Michigan State University scientists have uncovered a new microbe phylum which helps purify groundwater in Earth's deep ...

Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s ...

Learn about a new phylum of microbes that lives in deep soil, a layer of the Earth that supports water cycling and nutrient ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth's Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where ...

For example, since CSP1-3's ancestors lived in ... and evolution of a candidate phylum thriving in the deep Critical Zone, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025).

A new phylum of microbes has been discovered thriving in one of the least explored parts of Earth—the deep Critical Zone, a ...

An unknown group of microbes is thriving in Earth's deep soil and they’re quietly helping to clean the water that becomes our ...

Scientists at Michigan State University have discovered a new group of microbes living deep underground that help purify drinking water.

"Additionally, members of CSP1-3 phylum have multiple mechanisms to increase ... genes of value for other purposes," Tiedje said. "For example, we don't know their capacities for metabolizing ...