Have scientists been able to create living cells from non-living matter in a lab, as the media claim?

Answer 1

There's nothing in Nature.
http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html

Answer 2

which media said it? i am a scientist and never heard of this. the most scientists managed to do are cells with the lowest amount of dna possible and still able to survive and reproduce, live computer circuits (that unfortunately die after few hours) and some cell organelles that secrete substances that are not found in nature but that is all

Answer 3

Noone has even come anywhere remotely close to creating life in the lab.

The Urey-Miller experiment tried to show how life could arise from chemicals, but it really confirmed the impossibility of this occuring.

Abiogenesis is the theory that under the proper conditions life can arise spontaneously from non-living molecules. One of the most widely cited studies used to support this conclusion is the famous Miller–Urey experiment. Surveys of textbooks find that the Miller–Urey study is the major (or only) research cited to prove abiogenesis. Although widely heralded for decades by the popular press as ‘proving’ that life originated on the early earth entirely under natural conditions, we now realize the experiment actually provided compelling evidence for the opposite conclusion. It is now recognized that this set of experiments has done more to show that abiogenesis on Earth is not possible than to indicate how it could be possible. This paper reviews some of the many problems with this research, which attempted to demonstrate a feasible method of abiogenesis on the early earth.
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4111

Answer 4

I believe that there was a report that a virus was synthesised, possibly polio? However viruses are not strictly living, being more akin to biological spam than functioning independant entities.

Google for virus creation - logically this must come first being enormously easier to do.

Answer 5

Details for the question can be seen in wikipedia.org
Urey and Miller experiment is one of the classical experiment which demonstrates the generation of biomolecules in a controlled system.

Answer 6

probably but it won't help much cus there's no way we can tell what cells will become we could be trying to get a liver and end up with a frog

Answer 7

What media claimed that?

Answer 8

I have often wondered that. and don't know enough to answer truthfully but will be interested to see your answers. because where would that leave God and all that .good question. Will star it!!

Answer 9

Its not possible.