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This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 324.

Song title: Clamp the Signal, Cut the Noise
Original Base by Base episode: 324: ZSWIM8–CUL3 clamp on AGO2–miR-7 reveals mechanism of targeted microRNA degradation
Original episode link: https://basebybase.com/episodes/zswim8-cul3-tdmd-structure

Article metadata:
Article title: The E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanism specifying targeted microRNA degradation
Journal: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10232-0
Reference: Farnung J., Slobodyanyuk E., Wang P.Y., Blodgett L.W., Lin D.H., von Gronau S., Schulman B.A. & Bartel D.P. The E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanism specifying targeted microRNA degradation. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10232-0

Lyrics:
Verse 1
On bright screens in a sleepless lab,
A tiny strand won’t let go.
It finds its match, it holds its ground,
Like a secret code in slow motion.
And every silence starts to glow.

Pre-Chorus
When the pocket’s left open, that’s the tell,
A lock clicks clean, you can almost hear.
Two RNAs like a double-check,
No false alarms, no random wreck—
Just the right shape drawing near.

Chorus
Clamp the signal, cut the noise,
Tag it, turn it, make the choice.
If the pairing’s true, if the path aligns,
Marks go down in measured lines.
Clamp the signal, cut the noise—
Precision sings, and the cell rejoices.

Verse 2
A dimered grip, asymmetry,
Holding tight what time would fray.
A trigger pulls the thread just so,
Bends the route where bases lay.
And the target can’t hide away.

Bridge
Not every piece is captured in the frame,
Some edges drift, some partners stay unnamed.
But the core is clear: a guided hand,
A stepwise tag across the sand,
Until the old message can’t remain.

Final Chorus
Clamp the signal, cut the noise,
Tag it, turn it, make the choice.
Vacant pocket, destined signs,
A threaded route the clamp defines.
Clamp the signal, cut the noise—
From match to mark, the system’s poised,
And what was bound is now re-voiced.

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 323.

Song title: Not One Plate Fits All
Original Base by Base episode: 323: Meat consumption and APOE ε3/ε4–ε4/ε4: slower cognitive decline and lower dementia risk in SNAC‑K
Original episode link: https://basebybase.com/episodes/meat-apoe34-44-cognition

Article metadata:
Article title: Meat Consumption and Cognitive Health by APOE Genotype
Journal: JAMA Network Open
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.6489
Reference: Norgren J, Carballo-Casla A, Grande G, et al. Meat Consumption and Cognitive Health by APOE Genotype. JAMA Network Open. 2026;9(3):e266489. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.6489

Lyrics:
Verse 1
Late-life numbers on a glowing screen,
Ten-year lines where the past has been.
Same old meals, but the curves don’t agree—
Turns out the code in you changes the recipe.

Pre-Chorus
Some bodies read the menu like a map,
Some miss the message in the micronutrient gap.
I keep it steady, I keep it precise,
Listening close to what the data implies.

Chorus
Not one plate fits all, not one rule for every mind,
In the quiet of the years, different gears unwind.
If the pattern says “slow down,” we follow that sign—
Choose what feeds the future, one measured bite at a time.

Verse 2
For certain carriers, higher meat on the scale,
Tracked with steadier thinking along the trail.
But flip to processed and the risk climbs high,
A ratio that can’t be sweet-talked by time.

Bridge
Post hoc whispers: maybe B12 in the mix,
Maybe the matrix, how the nutrients stick.
We don’t crown a certainty, we name what we see—
Precision in the question is the start of therapy.

Final Chorus
Not one plate fits all, let the evidence lead,
Keep it cautious, keep it real, keep it centered on need.
Unprocessed over shortcuts, let the long years shine—
Choose what feeds the future, one measured bite at a time.

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 322.

Song title: When the Small Machine Slips
Original Base by Base episode: 322: Bi-allelic RNU6ATAC and RNU4ATAC variants cause infancy-onset autoimmune diabetes via minor spliceosome U12 intron retention
Original episode link: https://basebybase.com/episodes/rnu6atac-rnu4atac-minor-spliceosome

Article metadata:
Article title: Bi-allelic variants in the non-protein-coding minor spliceosome components RNU6ATAC and RNU4ATAC cause syndromic monogenic autoimmune diabetes
Journal: The American Journal of Human Genetics
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.02.017
Reference: Johnson MB, Russ-Silsby J, Blair PA, Govier M, Bonfield G, Domingo-Vila C, EXE-T1D consortium, ATAC clinical consortium, Wakeling MN, Oram RA, Flanagan SE, Tree TIM, Patel KA, Hattersley AT, De Franco E. Bi-allelic variants in the non-protein-coding minor spliceosome components RNU6ATAC and RNU4ATAC cause syndromic monogenic autoimmune diabetes. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 2026 Apr 2;113:1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.02.017

Lyrics:
Verse 1
In the quiet of a cradle, a bright screen starts to shout
Numbers climbing like a siren, no one knows what it’s about
Deep inside the tiny letters, something skips a hidden beat
A smaller kind of splice is stumbling underneath

Pre-Chorus
It’s not a broken protein, it’s a whisper in the code
Little RNAs in the shadows, carrying the load
And when they miss a turning, whole pages don’t align
A thread gets pulled across the bloodline

Chorus
When the small machine slips, the whole song turns strange
Intron left behind, and the rhythm rearranged
From the lab’s cold light to the ward’s long nights
We trace the missing stitches till the meaning comes alive
Yeah, the small machine slips—but we’re reading it right

Verse 2
A map of family branches, a pattern in the lines
Two quiet variants meeting, and the timing’s infant-time
Signals in the bloodstream, like static in the air
Half of them with markers that say the fight is there

Bridge
Naive hearts of B cells, learning how to grow
But the lesson gets distorted when the splicing won’t flow
Retention like a shadow on a hundred genes or more
We don’t have every answer—still we found the door
So test the hidden letters, don’t stop at what you see
A smaller splice can name the storm, and start the remedy

Final Chorus
When the small machine slips, the whole song turns strange
U12 left behind, and the rhythm rearranged
But we turn the lights on, follow every sign
From the first hard weeks to the root of the design
Yeah, the small machine slips—now we’re drawing the line

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 321.

Song title: Alphabet in the Dust
Original Base by Base episode: 321: All five canonical nucleobases detected in Ryugu samples
Original episode link: https://basebybase.com/episodes/ryugu-nucleobases-ammonia-correlation

Article metadata:
Article title: A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu
Journal: Nature Astronomy
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-026-02791-z
Reference: Koga T. et al., A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu. Nature Astronomy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-026-02791-z (2026).

Lyrics:
Verse 1
In a sealed little grain from a wandering stone,
We found five quiet letters no one wrote by hand.
Adenine, guanine—then the others in bone,
Cytosine, thymine, uracil in the sand.

Pre-Chorus
Was it chance, was it heat, was it water and time?
A chemistry whisper in the dark between.
Different mixes, same footsteps in the rhyme,
Tuned by what the rock could hold unseen.

Chorus
We’re dancing with the building blocks, drifting through the night,
An alphabet in the dust, catching starlight.
When ammonia falls, the balance shifts in view,
Old pathways, new ratios—still coming through.
From the cold to the cradle, it’s all breaking through,
Five small names saying, “Life could start from you.”

Verse 2
Two-step extraction, salt washed clean away,
Bright screens and long runs where the signals climb.
Orbiting peaks in an ion-spray,
Fragments that snap like proof in time.

Bridge
Not every route is mapped, not every shadow resolved,
Some notes below the limit, some isomers blurred.
But the pattern keeps calling—one lever involved,
A shared kind of making, shaped by what’s stirred.
And in that ancient delivery, the silence learns a word.

Final Chorus
We’re dancing with the building blocks, drifting through the night,
An alphabet in the dust, catching starlight.
Same five letters—different songs they grew,
Purines and pyrimidines changing with what came through.
From the cold to the cradle, it’s all breaking through,
Five small names saying, “Life could start from you.”

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 320.

Song title: Two Keys in the Same Blood
Original Base by Base episode: 320: Sex-stratified cQTL mapping identifies TOX (IFN-γ) and EGFR (IL-10) regulators in Dutch and Tanzanian cohorts
Original episode link: https://basebybase.com/episodes/sex-stratified-cytokine-qtl

Article metadata:
Article title: Sex-stratified genetic regulators of cytokine production in the Dutch and Tanzanian populations
Journal: Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, Journal Pre-proof
DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2026.100593
Reference: Amour C, Cetatean R, Ponce IR, Keur N, Temba GS, Kullaya VI, Mmbaga BT, Kavishe R, Joosten LAB, Netea MG, de Mast Q, Boahen CK, Kumar V, Sex-stratified genetic regulators of cytokine production in the Dutch and Tanzanian populations, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances (2026), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xhgg.2026.100593.

Lyrics:
Verse 1
Under bright screens in a late-night lab,
Numbers glow where the quiet answers hide,
Same stimulus, same river in the vein,
But two different currents decide.

Pre-Chorus
Split the signal, watch it rearrange,
What looks "the same" won’t stay the same,
A single letter can tilt the scale,
And still we’re calling both by one name.

Chorus
Two keys in the same blood, turning different doors,
One sparks the fire, one softens the roar,
If we listen side by side, the pattern becomes clear,
Not one immune song—two harmonies here.

Verse 2
A TOX-shaped switch in one set of hands,
Pushes IFN-γ up through the night,
An EGFR-shadow near another line,
Lifts IL-10 like a calming light.

Bridge
Don’t average us into silence,
Don’t blur the edges of the proof,
Some maps only show their pathways
When you let them tell the truth.

Final Chorus
Two keys in the same blood, turning different doors,
Precision needs the split, not the pooled and smoothed-out score,
So read the heat in context, let the data steer,
Not one immune song—two harmonies here.

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 319.

Song title: In the Middle of the Signal
Original Base by Base episode: 319: Predicting reduced-penetrance TP53 variants from functional assays and random forest models
Original episode link: https://basebybase.com/episodes/tp53-reduced-penetrance-prediction

Article metadata:
Article title: Characteristics predicting reduced penetrance variants in the high-risk cancer predisposition gene TP53
Journal: Human Genetics and Genomics Advances
DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2025.100484
Reference: Fortuno C, Richardson ME, Pesaran T, McGoldrick K, James PA, Spurdle AB. Characteristics predicting reduced penetrance variants in the high-risk cancer predisposition gene TP53. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. 2025;6:100484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xhgg.2025.100484

Lyrics:
Verse 1
Under bright screens, we read the code in light
A single letter, but it bends the whole blueprint
Not a blackout, not a clean white
Just a shadow on the edge of what it meant

Pre-Chorus
Some lines look loud, some lines look small
But this one lands between the rise and fall
We measure the drift, we follow it through
To name what’s real, and what to do

Chorus
It’s in the middle of the signal, in the in-between
Not fully broken, not as safe as it may seem
An attenuated thunder in the gene
So we watch with wiser eyes, not just routine

Verse 2
The assays speak in gradients, not yes-or-no
A tilt in function you can feel but can’t deny
And in the numbers, allele frequencies show
A quieter footprint passing by

Bridge
So let the model sift the noise from truth
A forest of decisions, patient and precise
One hundred chances we can put to proof
And give each family tailored advice

Final Chorus
It’s in the middle of the signal, in the in-between
Not fully broken, not as safe as it may seem
An attenuated thunder in the gene
So we watch with wiser eyes—careful, clear, and keen

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 318.

Song title: The Minor Intron Lights
Original Base by Base episode: 318: RNU6ATAC variants cause U6atac-driven minor spliceopathy with transcriptome-wide minor intron retention
Original episode link: https://basebybase.com/episodes/rnu6atac-minor-spliceopathy

Article metadata:
Article title: Biallelic Variants in RNU6ATAC Result in a Minor Spliceopathy Characterized by Transcriptome-Wide Minor Intron Retention Events and Short Stature with Variable Multisystem Manifestations
Journal: Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, Journal Pre-proof
DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2026.100588
Reference: Mendez R, Arriaga TM, Ma J, Bonner DE, Emami S, Levy RJ, Alsagheir A, Alhaddad B, Bakur K, Ungar RA, Matalon DR, Miller AM, Nguyen J, Smith KS, Scott SA, Liao L, Ng Z, Marwaha S, Ward A, Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Genomics Research to Elucidate the Genetics of Rare Diseases Consortium, Novacic D, Alkuraya FS, Bernstein JA, Ganesh VS, O’Donnell-Luria A, Montgomery SB, Wheeler MT, Biallelic Variants in RNU6ATAC Result in a Minor Spliceopathy Characterized by Transcriptome-Wide Minor Intron Retention Events and Short Stature with Variable Multisystem Manifestations, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances (2026), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xhgg.2026.100588

Lyrics:
Verse 1
In the quiet lanes of a folded strand,
A hidden rhythm slips from hand to hand.
Little doors in the message don’t close on time,
And the whole wide chorus falls out of line.

Pre-Chorus
We traced the tremor through the script tonight,
From the smallest splice to the body’s fight.
Two tiny changes, and the gears misfire—
Hear that heartbeat under wire.

Chorus
Turn on the minor intron lights,
Let the small cuts make sense of nights.
When the words get stuck, we read them through,
Find the break, find the thread, find you.

Verse 2
A short horizon, bones and breath,
Signals tangled in the shade of health.
Blood and skin cells, the same refrain:
A subtle fault with a wide-spread pain.

Bridge
Not every clue is loud and clear,
Some are whispers you can only hear
When you line up the reads, let patterns speak,
And follow the missing where it leaks.

Final Chorus
Turn on the minor intron lights,
Let the small cuts make sense of nights.
If the splice runs slow, we won’t let go—
Name the glitch, map the cause, help life grow.

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 317.

Song title: Splice the Signal
Original Base by Base episode: 317: COPD sQTL colocalization in lung and blood identifies FBXO38 and BTC splicing mechanisms
Original episode link: https://basebybase.com/episodes/copd-sqtl-fbxo38-btc

Article metadata:
Article title: Overlap between COPD genetic association results and transcriptional quantitative trait loci
Journal: Human Genetics and Genomics Advances
DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2025.100493
Reference: Saferali A., Kim W., Chase R.P., NHLBI TransOmics in Precision Medicine (TOPMed), Vollmers C., Silverman E.K., Cho M.H., Castaldi P.J., Hersh C.P. Overlap between COPD genetic association results and transcriptional quantitative trait loci. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. 2026 Jan 15;7:100493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xhgg.2025.100493.

Lyrics:
Verse 1
Under cold white light and a humming screen,
We chase a risk that hides in-between.
Not in the obvious cut or seam—
But upstream shadows in the gene.

Pre-Chorus
Windows line up like constellations in the dark,
Bayes in the background, waiting for the spark.
If the maps agree, we’re finally close—
To the mechanism nobody chose.

Chorus
Splice the signal, let it show,
In the lung where the quiet changes grow.
One wrong turn, one hidden frame,
And the cell forgets to say your name.
Splice the signal—clear and bright,
Turn the noise into a line of light.

Verse 2
A cryptic exon slips inside,
Premature stop—then it can’t survive.
The message drops, decay rolls in,
And expression falls like a swallowed hymn.
Another exon shifts the shape,
Isoforms trade places, escape and take.

Bridge
Long-read truth in a single thread,
Sashimi arcs where the splice was led.
Thirty-three doors in the same old wall,
Thirty-eight times the echoes call.
We don’t just count—we understand:
Risk has hands, and hands can be planned.

Final Chorus
Splice the signal, let it show,
From blood to lung where the answers glow.
Not fate, not fog—just moving parts,
A map of endings, a start of starts.
Splice the signal—hold on tight,
Name the isoform, aim the fight,
And when the pattern locks in place,
We give the future breathing space.

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 316.

Song title: Weight the Night
Original Base by Base episode: 316: Inclusion bias in UCLA ATLAS: enrollment models, weighting, and effects on GWAS and PGS
Original episode link: https://basebybase.com/episodes/inclusion-bias-ucla-atlas

Article metadata:
Article title: Inclusion bias affects common variant discovery and replication in a health-system linked biobank
Journal: The American Journal of Human Genetics
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.02.011
Reference: Pimplaskar A, Qiu J, Lapinska S, Tozzo V, Chiang JN, Pasaniuc B, Olde Loohuis LM. Inclusion bias affects common variant discovery and replication in a health-system linked biobank. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 2026;113:1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.02.011

Lyrics:
Verse 1
I watched the numbers drift to the ones who showed up
Opt-in shadows leaning on the light
A clean little dataset, but it tells a crooked story
So I trace the missing people in the night

Pre-Chorus
Build a forest out of visits and codes
Let it whisper who’s likely to enroll
Then I flip the lens with a careful hand
So the truth fits the whole

Chorus
Weight the night, bring the bias to the scale
Make the old signals ring out clear again
We lose some size, but we gain a truer trail
Finding what holds up when it meets the world outside our pen
Weight the night—let it tell the tale

Verse 2
A curve that climbs—yeah, the classifier sees us
Probabilities blooming on the screen
Known variants come back louder when we listen different
But the edges get strange in the tails between

Bridge
And every score that promised “this is who you are”
Can change its map when the crowd shifts shape
Some arrows turn, some patterns fall apart
When we stop mistaking a sample for fate

Final Chorus
Weight the night, bring the bias to the scale
Make the old signals ring out clear again
We lose some size, but we gain a truer trail
No more borrowed certainty—no more convenient friends
Weight the night, till the echoes don’t fail
Weight the night—let it tell the tale

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 315.

Song title: Tailless Thunder
Original Base by Base episode: 315: PLE11-encoded Rta restricts ICP1 tail assembly in Vibrio cholerae outbreaks
Original episode link: https://basebybase.com/episodes/ple11-rta-icp1-tail-assembly

Article metadata:
Article title: Capturing dynamic phage–pathogen coevolution by clinical surveillance
Journal: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10136-z
Reference: Mathur Y., Boyd C. M., Farnham J. E., Monir M. M., Islam M. T., Sultana M., Ahmed T., Alam M. & Seed K. D. Capturing dynamic phage–pathogen coevolution by clinical surveillance. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10136-z

Lyrics:
Verse 1
In the lab light, you can feel the tide
A killer in the water, nowhere to hide
A hunter finds a host, cuts in like a knife
But something in the cell says, “Not this life”

Pre-Chorus
Blueprints shifting in the quiet heat
Tiny code with a heavier beat
They build, they break, they trade the keys
A war in threads too small to see

Chorus
Tailless thunder, watch it fall
When the long tail never forms at all
One small signal, one clean strike
Stops the bite before it bites
Then a shadow learns to ride the storm
Steals a tail and keeps moving on
Tailless thunder—still the chase
Evolution picks up pace

Verse 2
A tape-measure ruler in the dark
Set the length, set the spark
But a silent wrench hits the assembly line
Capsids stack up—perfect, blind

Bridge
And the hunter won’t just fade away
It rewrites itself to find a way
New defenses, swapped-out parts
Same old hunger, smarter heart
Round and round, the pressure stays
Surveillance sees tomorrow’s strain

Final Chorus
Tailless thunder, watch it fall
When the long tail never forms at all
One small signal, one clean strike
Stops the bite before it bites
Then a shadow learns to ride the storm
Builds a borrowed tail and keeps moving on
Tailless thunder—hold on tight
We read the signs to face the night