At the moment, no. There are several labs all working on different aspects of this idea. At one end are people like Craig Venter who plan to replace the genetic information of a cell with a new set of information of their own design. At the other end there is an international collaboration on creating a new type of organism that does not depend on DNA at all.
The first is not really 'creating life from scratch' and the second is probably still years form producing a true self-replcating system. Nonetheless, it is very likely some group will succeed in creating something that owes nothing to a previous ancestor, other than the humans that made it
