How to Use microbiota in a Sentence

microbiota

noun

• Your navel also has microbiota, just like the rest of your skin.
  — Sarah Leupen, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2023
• Between one to ten percent of the mass and half the cells in animals are microbiota.
  — Jason Pontin, WIRED, 15 June 2018
• Navedo and his students cast cannon nets over the birds and catch 30 to 40 of them at a time to sample their gut microbiota.
  — Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
• Why go through all this again, the hideous miracle of the human microbiota?
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 19 May 2020
• The gut is packed with microbiota that either need to be fed to grow and strengthen, or need to be deprived in order to weaken.
  — Pamela Nisevich Bede, Outside Online, 26 Mar. 2020
• There’s growing evidence of a link between the brain and our microbiota as well.
  — Jasenka Zubcevic and Christopher Martyniuk, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2017
• The time of day when people eat also can throw microbiota off-kilter.
  — Larry M. Greenberg, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2017
• And the skin, gut and tongue microbiota were all more alike among family members compared to outsiders.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 23 Apr. 2018
• In other words, their gut microbiota could simply be a byproduct of their lifestyle.
  — Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 11 Sep. 2020
• Iron in the water adhered to the trapped, rotting microbiota, hardening the structure.
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2014
• For instance, one of the key functions of the skin microbiota, which are mostly bacteria, is acid resistance.
  — Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
• The idea, usually, is to alter organisms in the gut, where about 99 percent of human microbiota live.
  — Fortune, 12 June 2018
• The researchers found that microbiota were at least partially restored, but the study only involved four babies, and there wasn’t any long term follow-up.
  — Kate Morgan, The Cut, 15 May 2018
• The healthier the diet, the healthier the microbiota, in other words, and the better the digestive system can function.
  — Mackenzie Wagoner, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2019
• The gut microbiota is made up of trillions of microbes that play a role in digestion, immunity, and overall health.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• In the gut, ACE2 plays many roles including regulating the ecology of the gut microbiota.
  — Katrin Legg, Scientific American, 24 June 2021
• The researchers are going to search for the causes of PSC, studying the role of genes, microbiota, environmental triggers, and the immune system.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• The differences between their gut microbiotas were clear-cut.
  — Ewen Callaway, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2019
• Over the course of 12 months, the study participants assigned the Mediterranean diet were less likely to lose diversity in their gut microbiota.
  — Erin Schumaker, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2020
• The gut microbiota is the community of microorganisms that live in the gastrointestinal tract.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 June 2022
• These bacteria were absent or present at very low levels in the microbiotas of nearly all c-section babies after birth.
  — Ewen Callaway, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2019
• What's more, the specific type of fiber found in onions (as well as garlic, wheat, and legumes) may more effectively feed the beneficial microbiota than the fiber found in other foods, a 2018 meta-analysis found.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 21 Jan. 2021
• Parents interested in caring for their child's gut microbiota for weight management or overall health can look to whole food sources.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 7 Sep. 2020
• Studies show that the microbiota of obese people differs from that of lean individuals.
  — Robert J. Davis, Time, 24 Sep. 2021
• The collection of bacteria found in the healthy stool — called the microbiota — repopulate the colon of the patient, and essentially crowd out the infectious bacteria.
  — Sara G. Miller, NBC News, 13 June 2019
• Already, this research has led to a therapy called FMT, or fecal microbiota transplant.
  — Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2016
• But, according to a new study, this fast isn’t fatal to the body’s microbiota because of a clever trick the intestines perform: producing sugars to sustain their resident microbes.
  — Bethany Hubbard, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2014
• All have neurons, a mouth opening at the end of a retractable proboscis, an intestine containing a microbiota and four pairs of non-articulated legs ending in claws, and most have two eyes.
  — Laurent Palka, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
• At this point, this non-digested food mass will be bombarded by our intestinal microbiota.
  — Anthony Martin, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2016
• To cite just one example, treatment with the antibiotic fluoroquinolone has been found to result in a rapid and significant decrease in the diversity and richness of the gut microbiota.
  — Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024