Miami Golem (1985)

A Miami TV reporter is sent to a local university to do a story on a professor who is cloning a cell from DNA found inside a meteorite Soon after the reporter leaves a gunman kills everyone in the professors lab and steals the cell for a wealthy businessman When the reporter learns that he is targeted for assassination as well he enlists the help of two scientists to discover who is behind the crimes why they stole the cell and whether or not the cell should be allowed to continue living