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Max Renner
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PI at Umeå University and UCMR | Northern Sweden | Alum: @ox.ac.uk | Structural Virology | https://renner-lab.com/ | 🇸🇪 🦠🔬 🌱
Our new preprint is out 🥳🥳🥳

Henipaviruses, like Nipah and Hendra, package their genomes inside helical shells built by thousands of nucleoproteins. These nucleocapsids are essential to protect the viral RNA, but how do they ever let the polymerase in to read the sequence?

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The coldest summer of the rest of our lives...
June 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Super interesting read!

"Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus"

www.science.org/content/arti...
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Another beautiful morning in Umeå! Sun is shining, we have a crisp -10°C, snow everywhere. Just perfect 😍❄️☀️
February 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Meritocracy
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