When not undergoing replication, DNA molecules float freely within the cytoplasm of a cell. This makes them available to the accessory molecules that organize and repair DNA.

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The enzymes that handle DNA molecules are often called "polymerases," but the -ase suffix denotes an enzyme. When not undergoing replication, DNA molecules float freely within the cytoplasm of a cell.

Their findings, which were published March 7 in Science, one of world’s leading scientific journals, not only reveal new details about how secondary DNA structures like G4s can impede DNA replication, ...