What if scientists cloned a human within a sterilized bacteria free clean room?

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Part Multi 313

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The human body contains trillions of microorganisms — outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1. Because of their small size, however, microorganisms make up only about 1 to 3 percent of the body's mass (in a 200-pound adult, that's 2 to 6 pounds of bacteria), but play a vital role in human health.

Jun 13, 2012
National Institute of Health
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These bacterium are passed along to children through the mother in the womb. Suppose, using a sterilized incubator and a clean room, we test tubed a baby and never made physical contact with it outside of a sterilized clean suit. Once particular eggs and sperm candidates were chosen, they would be sterilized as well of all foreign bacteria so that the test tube baby's body was made purely of its own DNA. This would mean that you would need to use sterilized nutrients and food as well so as not to introduce foreign bactera through food.

Question is, could such a human survive?
 
Part Multi 313 said:
These bacterium are passed along to children through the mother in the womb. Suppose, using a sterilized incubator and a clean room, we test tubed a baby and never made physical contact with it outside of a sterilized clean suit. Once particular eggs and sperm candidates were chosen, they would be sterilized as well of all foreign bacteria so that the test tube baby's body was made purely of its own DNA. This would mean that you would need to use sterilized nutrients and food as well so as not to introduce foreign bactera through food.

Question is, could such a human survive?
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No.
 
MASON said:
No.
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Hmmm... I don't know if "no" can suffice. Live Science had an article called "Can Humans Live Without Bacteria?" In 2010. The author doesn't directly answer the question, but explains that bacteria helps a lot with priming our immune systems to function and helps with digesting vegetables. There wasn't much else to find with Google search and you can't assume that there isn't anything else about this subject out there.

I say that inside a sterilized clean room and with designer foods available there isn't a worry about a need for a strong immune system because there would be no risk of infections without human to human contact (unless you bred both a man and a woman in captivity) and there is no worry about being able to digest food because well, we got that taken care of.

I think a person can survive without bacteria if they lived their whole entire life in a sterilized clean room.
 
Jade Dragon said:
You need bacteria to survive.
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The argument appears that we rely on bacteria for many benefits but ultimately, bacteria isn't 100% necessary to survive. Sorta like modern society versus hunter-gatherer... feeding yourself is a lot easier in 2019 than 2000 B.C. Same can be said about bacteria. Bacteria helps out a lot and life would be hard without it but in the end we could go without.
 
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