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No one injured in Oakland shooting
See Online for updated crime map April 4, 2016 | Issue 135 | Volume 106
Zoë Hannah
Assistant News Editor Pittsburgh police are searching for someone who shot a gun into a park and a house in Oakland Friday night . According to the release, no one was injured, but police officers found four shell casings on the 3700 block of Frazier Street in Oakland. Officers were dispatched to the scene at 8:30 p.m., where a group of five adults said they saw shots fired from a small red vehicle in the direction of Dan Marino Field, at the intersection of Frazier Street and Parkview Avenue, the release said. The release said one bullet went through a bedroom window and hit a lamp, then ended up in the drywall. The resident of the house, a 20-year-old man, was home at the time but was not injured, according to the release. Police are still investigating the shooting, the release said. As of Sunday evening, Department of Public Safety spokesperson Sonya Toler said there is no other information available about the shooting at this time.
Brittany Adams sings a solo during the Some of God’s Children Gospel Choir concert Sunday afternoon in the William Pitt Union Will Miller STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Researchers develop portable cell model Erin Hare
Staff Writer Remote communities often lack the kind of medical labs necessary for accurate diagnoses and treatments, but new lab-on-a-chip technology from Pitt could make these devices portable. Pitt researchers have created a model that explains how enzymes can move around cells — either engineered microcapsules or primitive biological cells
— through the body’s channels . This model, which appeared in the journal ScienceAdvances in March, could facilitate portable medical diagnostic tests — and explain how life may have formed on Earth. This work builds on experimental results from Ayusman Sen, a chemistry professor at Penn State. Sen discovered the enzyme-generated currents in 2014, and the Pitt team figured out how
to harness those currents to transport simple cells. As life evolved on Earth, it was important for individual cells to “sniff ” each other out and band together in colonies that could work together for survival, Sen said. This model provides a means for cells to follow their noses, so to speak. See Cell Study on page 3