摘要：

An interview with Cynthia J. Burrows, a chemist at the University of Utah and a recently elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, is presented. She mentions a research conducted by her team regarding the chemical modifications to damage-prone DNA structures including G-quadruplexes. She discusses the human telomere sequence GGGTTA as well as protein nanopores. She also discusses the behavior of G-quadruplexes in a cellular environment.

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