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Yes.Life, on the whole, is not special. It's not some magical property some things have and other things don't, it's just a cognitive shorthand for certain types of self-replicating systems.Vitalists have a long and proud history of being completely wrong about this, going back to prehistory, and for most of recorded history, the prevailing idea has been living things have an élan vital, a life force. This life force has then been credited with being responsible for allowing certain transformations of materials.However, at some point people started doing actual science, and vitalism started falling apart, and quickly. Perhaps the most damaging evidence against the doctrine was the Wöhler synthesis, in which urea (an organic compound) was produced from ammonium cyanate (an inorganic compound).From that point on, the surest way to find a pathway to an organic compound has been to tell a chemist "Well, Chemical X cannot be made in a lab, so life is special!".Turns out, every time that claim has been made, that, no. It isn't.Since Wöhler's time, chemists have repeatedly demonstrated lab-based and naturally occurring non-biological pathways to new parts of biology: Amino acids, nucleotides, phospholipids, simple proteins, reactions with a self-replicating bias, … the list goes on.If you have ten minutes, I would recommend this video, which is a good rundown of the current understanding of how all of this happened in nature, way back when:Of course, as any other scientific explanation, it's provisional, but experiments have been constructed to replicate the conditions explored and have shown the basic principles to be viable, leaving us a scant few steps away from our very own life forms cut from the most basic building blocks, right there in the lab.So if life is so simple to make (and it really kind of is), why isn't new life forms popping up all over the place?Because all life, new and old, is made of food, and bacterial life is already everywhere. Even deep in the ocean, surrounding volcanic vents, there exists a rich and well-established eco-system, liable to eat anything that could potentially start a new tree of life, and even if an early cell could develop, it would either rapidly be eaten or out-competed by creatures with a good 4 billion years and change of evolution on it.New life, even if conditions are such that it can form, simply can't hack it in the wild, and probably never will. In fact, it hasn't had a chance for billions of years.The math of this is fairly simple: Even if a new strain of life unrelated to our own last universal ancestor (LUA) should turn up on the scene and replicate out to a trillion individuals (about 40 generations), and even if it could go toe to toe with established bacteria, it just can't measure up, because it's not about the battle.Every time a LUA creature eats a new universal ancestor (NUA) creature, the NUA loses a trillionth of its strength.Every time a NUA creature eats a LUA creature, the LUA loses a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of it's strength.So if you're trying to make new life, make sure those beakers are sterile.And sorry, New Life. Earth just isn't friendly to Startups.

Most labs buy compressed CO2 in tanks from commercial gas suppliers. It is used for fountain drink/soda machines and is incredibly cheap.Another source is dry ice, but it sublimates quickly, so you have to use it quickly.Another source is from the yeast fermentation of sugar water. This is commonly used to supplement CO2 for plants in aquariums and small greenhouses.Last but certainly not least, you can make it in the lab chemically.Baking soda and vinegar works for this reaction, but it its fast, messy, and foams a lot. A much more controlled reaction is from marble (stone) chips and sulfuric acid.CaCO3 + H2SO4 = CaSO4 + H2O + CO2A long time ago a clever fellow invented a device called the Kipp's apparatus - Wikipedia that performs this and other gas generation reactions in a controlled manner.Here’s a video about how they work from the University of Nottingham.Those aren’t cheap, but they work great. If you can’t afford one, go for it.Note that the gas that comes out of these generators usually has water vapor mixed in it, so if you need dry CO2 you’ll have to pass it through a tube loaded with a dessicant. Magnesium Sulfate (Epsom’s salt) or Calcium Chloride (Ice melting salt) are cheap options for desiccants.If you are DIYer, willing to risk failure, and have access to a laser cutter then I have an untested design for a variant of this device. I created it to be cut from plastic acrylic sheet (Lexan or Plexiglass) and then glued together. Unfortunately I lost access to the laser cutter before I could build one. It probably won’t work, will almost certainly spill acid all over your workbench, and probably won’t explode.Message me on Quora if you’d like the files so you can make one.