University of Oklahoma faculty Helen I. Zgurskaya and Valentin V. Rybenkov are contributing to a $104 million federal initiative to study antibiotic resistance. Harvard Medical School professor Johan Paulsson leads the multi-institutional research team. The initiative, " DARTS: Defeating Antibiotic Resistance through Transformative Solutions ," is funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The project aims to address the critical healthcare challenge of increasingly resilient bacteria by "advancing an ultra-high throughput imaging and culturing platform that can continuously track and test billions of bacteria one by one.

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