From Cancer to the Origins of Life

Dr. Cynthia Burrows leads the Burrows Research Group at the University of Utah. The team investigates several different aspects of nucleic acid chemistry ranging from the mechanistic organic chemistry of oxidative DNA damage to biochemical studies of enzymes that act on DNA lesions. Lessons learned in modified DNA bases are also being applied to the design of new siRNAs for applications to therapeutic RNA interference. Dr. Burrows discusses some of the research she is currently doing at the University of Utah with TLU Chemistry and Biology students.

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Education

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• nucleic acid chemistry
• Chemistry
• Cancer
• Health
• Health Care
• University of Utah
• DNA
• TLU
• siRNAs