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This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 443.

Song title: Skip the Broken Beat
Original Base by Base episode: 443: 5D‑ASO boosts exon 51 skipping and restores dystrophin in DMD models

Article metadata:
Article title: An antisense method for efficient exon skipping and its application to Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Journal: PNAS
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2606494123
Reference: Feng P., Gao P., Meng S., Yuan Y., Krainer A.R., Hua Y. An antisense method for efficient exon skipping and its application to Duchenne muscular dystrophy. PNAS. 2026;123(33):e2606494123. doi:10.1073/pnas.2606494123

Lyrics:
Verse 1
Late nights under fluorescent skies,
We read the body’s tangled lines,
A missing line, a heavy cost,
But we don’t leave the rhythm lost.

Pre-Chorus
So we whisper to the splice-site gate,
A tiny tail to change its fate,
A decoy note, a subtle steer,
And sudden clarity draws near.

Chorus
Skip the broken beat, let the song go on,
Cut the wrong frame, bring the strength back on,
From a silent page to a muscle’s spark,
We find the light in the after-dark.

Verse 2
On bright screens, patterns start to show,
Seven, eight—just enough to hold,
Guiding U1 down a side-street turn,
So the right new version can return.

Bridge
Not too much—keep the balance true,
Strong enough to pull us through,
From cell to tissue, test by test,
A safer window, a stronger rest.

Final Chorus
Skip the broken beat, let the song go on,
Raise a new dawn where the strain had won,
A little decoy, a cleaner line,
And every step says: we’ve got time.

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 442.

Song title: Pump the Light Back In
Original Base by Base episode: 442: When pumps go missing: Ca2+ control of PMCA2 in Tmc1 deafness mutants

Article metadata:
Article title: Ca2+ regulation of PMCA2 calcium pump expression in hair cells of Tmc1 deafness mutants
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2607733123
Reference: Rolseth AB, Beurg M, Konrad DE, Augusta BK, Fettiplace R. Ca2+ regulation of PMCA2 calcium pump expression in hair cells of Tmc1 deafness mutants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 2026;123:e2607733123. doi:10.1073/pnas.2607733123.

Lyrics:
Verse 1
In the hair-thin forest where the silence grows
Tiny gates swing open with the push and pull
But the calcium river don’t arrive like it used to
So the clean-up crew can’t do its job in full

Pre-Chorus
Less spark in the bundle, less signal to send
Vesicles waiting where the bright tips bend
If the tide don’t rise, the pump don’t land
Hold on—hold on—give it a chance again

Chorus
Bring the pump back, bring the light back in
Keep that calcium moving, let the balance win
Don’t let the power fade in the midnight spin
We’re riding that rhythm on a thin, thin pin

Verse 2
Early days are fragile, turnover running fast
Pumps on the surface, then they’re gone too soon
Block the traffic, starve the fuse, and it slips away
And the cell starts hearing its own last tune

Bridge
Neuroplastin comes late like a hand on the rail
Two days behind but it steadies the sail
If the anchor don’t catch, the engines strain
Mitochondria crying in the dark again

Final Chorus
Bring the pump back, bring the light back in
Keep that calcium moving, let the balance win
There’s a window wide open—don’t wait too long
We’re dub in the lab till the break of dawn

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 441.

Song title: Voltage in the Margins
Original Base by Base episode: 441: Evolutionary mapping of Cav1.3 functional sites

Article metadata:
Article title: Identification of novel functional sites in the Cav1.3 calcium channel α1-subunit using evolutionary modeling
Journal: PNAS
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2602636123
Reference: Tang X, Hermenean HC, Yakimchyka A, Tuluc P, Ortner NJ, Liedl KR. Identification of novel functional sites in the Cav1.3 calcium channel α1-subunit using evolutionary modeling. PNAS. 2026;123(32):e2602636123. doi:10.1073/pnas.2602636123

Lyrics:
Verse 1
Long nights with a million lines, hidden in the code
Old amino echoes humming, showing where the current flows
If the pattern starts to whisper, we can find the fragile place
One small change can flip the switch, rewrite the channel’s pace

Pre-Chorus
Tension in the sequence, like a drum about to break
Signals in the silence, telling us which steps to take
We don’t need a crystal ball, we read what time preserved
In the folds of evolution, every contact gets its word

Chorus
Hey—light it up, let it speak, let the membrane feel alive
Find the sites, name the fault lines, keep the rhythm in the drive
From the sensor to the pore, where the coupling learns to move
We can trace the spark to one residue—and prove what it can do

Verse 2
Patch-clamp thunder on the screen, a heartbeat made of waves
Some go dark and never conduct, some shift left and misbehave
Gates that open way too easy, or they hesitate and slow
Different faces, same blueprint—now we finally know

Bridge
Context is the secret, not just “keep” or “change” alone
Epistatic roads connect the parts that never stand on their own
Not predicting what direction, but it points the starring role
So we map the risky clusters, turn the mystery into control

Final Chorus
Hey—light it up, let it speak, let the membrane feel alive
Find the sites, name the fault lines, keep the rhythm in the drive
From the sensor to the pore, where the coupling learns to move
We can trace the spark to one residue—and change what we can do

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 440.

Song title: Scars on the Signal
Original Base by Base episode: 440: DENV-4: Suppressing DNA Repair and Causing Genome Damage

Article metadata:
Article title: DENV-4 infection suppresses transcription of DNA repair genes
Journal: PNAS
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2536909123
Reference: Lamkina EN, Reich J, Victora JA, et al. DENV-4 infection suppresses transcription of DNA repair genes. PNAS. 2026;123(32):e2536909123. doi:10.1073/pnas.2536909123

Lyrics:
Verse 1
Late-night glow in a humming lab
A quiet hit and the system sags
Warnings flare in a broken chain
But the fix-it crew don’t show the same

Pre-Chorus
Pages go dark in the repair-room light
Shut-down lines in the middle of the fight
A new crack shines where it shouldn’t stay
And the damage writes what we can’t erase

Chorus
DENV-4, you cut the power to repair
Left a bright bruise hanging in the air
Survivors walking with a hidden mark
Scars on the signal in the dark

Verse 2
ATR fades like a siren drowned
While γH2AX paints the fallout loud
And one wild pen starts to over-write
A mutagen hand in the afterlife

Bridge
No telomeres falling, no ending string
But the genes go quiet—hear the silence ring
If the cells move on, what will they become?
A future risk from a battle won

Final Chorus
DENV-4, you cut the power to repair
Left a bright bruise hanging in the air
We’ll chase the why, we’ll chart the spark
’Til we clear those scars out of the dark

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 440.

Song title: Scars on the Signal
Original Base by Base episode: 440: DENV-4: Suppressing DNA Repair and Causing Genome Damage

Article metadata:
Article title: DENV-4 infection suppresses transcription of DNA repair genes
Journal: PNAS
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2536909123
Reference: Lamkina EN, Reich J, Victora JA, et al. DENV-4 infection suppresses transcription of DNA repair genes. PNAS. 2026;123(32):e2536909123. doi:10.1073/pnas.2536909123

Lyrics:
Verse 1
Late-night glow in a humming lab
A quiet hit and the system sags
Warnings flare in a broken chain
But the fix-it crew don’t show the same

Pre-Chorus
Pages go dark in the repair-room light
Shut-down lines in the middle of the fight
A new crack shines where it shouldn’t stay
And the damage writes what we can’t erase

Chorus
DENV-4, you cut the power to repair
Left a bright bruise hanging in the air
Survivors walking with a hidden mark
Scars on the signal in the dark

Verse 2
ATR fades like a siren drowned
While γH2AX paints the fallout loud
And one wild pen starts to over-write
A mutagen hand in the afterlife

Bridge
No telomeres falling, no ending string
But the genes go quiet—hear the silence ring
If the cells move on, what will they become?
A future risk from a battle won

Final Chorus
DENV-4, you cut the power to repair
Left a bright bruise hanging in the air
We’ll chase the why, we’ll chart the spark
’Til we clear those scars out of the dark

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 439.

Song title: Same Shape, New Name
Original Base by Base episode: 439: Coembedding Sequence and Structure: CLSS Maps the Protein Universe

Article metadata:
Article title: Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space
Journal: PNAS
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2532702123
Reference: Longo LM, Yanai G, Axel G, Kolodny R, Ben-Tal N. Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space. PNAS. 2026;123(32):e2532702123. doi:10.1073/pnas.2532702123.

Lyrics:
Verse 1
I’ve been staring at a thousand little codes
Letters running like headlights on the road
But the meaning hid behind a folded frame
Till two quiet signals learned the same name

Pre-Chorus
Put the sequence on the left, structure on the right
Pull them close in the dark, let them line up to the light
A small space, one embrace, where they finally agree

Chorus
Same shape, new name, in a single view
What the chain can’t say, the fold comes through
Step by step, we map the unseen
Find the family lines in the in-between
Same shape, new name—now it’s coming true

Verse 2
Not just the whole song—take a bar, take a part
Even fragments find their place like sparks to a heart
Neighbors show up when you ask the room to decide
And the clusters bloom with no labels to guide

Bridge
Thirty-two doors in a hallway of sound
Open one—watch the distant become found
Cofactors, metals, whispers of function in the air
A world of proteins, drawn as if it’s there

Final Chorus
Same shape, new name, in a single view
What the chain can’t say, the fold comes through
Search it fast, learn it clean, keep the signal tight
Turn the maze to a map in the late-night light
Same shape, new name—now we see it too

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 438.

Song title: Map the Unknown
Original Base by Base episode: 438: Mapping AIRE: a proactive atlas of 9,790 missense variants

Article metadata:
Article title: Systematic and proactive evaluation of AIRE missense variant effects
Journal: The American Journal of Human Genetics
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.07.008
Reference: Axakova A., Berger A.H., van Loggerenberg W., et al. Systematic and proactive evaluation of AIRE missense variant effects. The American Journal of Human Genetics 113, 1–21 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.07.008

Lyrics:
Verse 1
Midnight in the lab, bright screens, steady hands
One gene, one guardian, drawn in shifting sands
Every single letter change, a spark we can’t ignore
So we test the whole horizon, knock on every door

Pre-Chorus
Some changes fall like silence, some flare like neon light
Some break the switch to “off,” some push it past “right”
We line them up in rows, let the signal tell the truth
Turning doubt into a pattern, turning guesswork into proof

Chorus
Map the unknown, make it loud, make it clear
Name the shadows that were hiding in the fear
From a question mark to an answer we can use
We draw the line, we choose the clues—
Map the unknown

Verse 2
A green glow on the sorter, cells like falling rain
We watch the good and broken, split by loss and gain
Domains that won’t forgive you, places built to never bend
And one blind spot in the middle where the reporter won’t defend

Bridge
Not every story fits one window, not every truth’s in one assay
But calibrated lines can guide a doctor on a harder day
So when a chart says “VUS,” we don’t have to freeze
We can re-write the label with evidence and keys

Final Chorus
Map the unknown, make it loud, make it clear
Bring the early warning closer, pull the diagnosis near
From a question mark to an answer we can use
We draw the line, we choose the clues—
Map the unknown

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 437.

Song title: Villages of Light
Original Base by Base episode: 437: Cell villages and Dirichlet modeling map human cell fitness genetics

Article metadata:
Article title: Cell villages and Dirichlet modeling map human cell fitness genetics
Journal: The American Journal of Human Genetics
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.07.005
Reference: Hanson C., Derebenskiy T., Rodriguez Vega A., et al. Cell villages and Dirichlet modeling map human cell fitness genetics. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 2026;113:1–21. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.07.005

Lyrics:
Verse 1
We mixed our names in one bright dish of time,
A dozen sparks in one shared, steady glow.
Low-coverage constellations draw the lines,
Who’s rising fast, who’s learning to grow slow.

Pre-Chorus
The numbers drift, then settle into shape,
A quiet signal under all the noise.
A hidden bias tries to bend the tape,
But we can hear the pattern in the choice.

Chorus
In these cell villages, we watch it come alive,
A million little futures in a single, breathing frame.
Some genes push the heartbeat, some teach it to survive,
And we map the unseen drivers like a call without a name.

Verse 2
One missing stretch can make the crowd run wild,
A faster tide where steady waves should be.
Another switch near silent code gets filed,
As growth turns into something we can see.
And when the heavy metal tests the air,
Some lines hold on, some fall to the strain—
Not luck, not fate, but variants waiting there,
A difference written deep beneath the same.

Bridge
So let the mixtures tell the truth in motion,
Let time-series footprints light the floor.
A Dirichlet sky, a careful, nested ocean,
Finding what the simple fits missed before.
We’re not just counting cells—we’re reading cause,
Where genes and stressors meet and redraw the laws.

Final Chorus
In these cell villages, we watch it come alive,
Donor by donor, it’s a story in the change.
Some genes push the heartbeat, some teach it to survive,
And we trace the quiet modifiers across the living range.
Yeah, we trace the quiet modifiers—
And turn the noise into a name.

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 436.

Song title: Plaque in the Dark
Original Base by Base episode: 436: KIAP4 and the ARND family: building the Leishmania adhesion plaque

Article metadata:
Article title: Identifcation of a conserved gene family with an essential role in Leishmania parasite–insect vector adhesion
Journal: PNAS
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2603653123
Reference: Owino BO, Sunter JD, et al. Identifcation of a conserved gene family with an essential role in Leishmania parasite–insect vector adhesion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (PNAS). 2026;123(30):e2603653123. doi:10.1073/pnas.2603653123

Lyrics:
Verse 1
Under bright screens, in the midnight glow
A tiny traveler learns where to hold
Not by force, but by a secret set
A silent scaffold the eye can’t get
A doorway waits where the currents roll

Pre-Chorus
They searched the surface, traced the seam
Tagged the neighbors like a living beam
Found the names in a proteome choir
One key piece in the rising wire

Chorus
KIAP4, hold on—don’t let go
Lock the flagellum where the pathways flow
When that anchor’s gone, the journey breaks
No valve to claim, no line it takes
Stop the grip, stop the spread—light up the road

Verse 2
A family conserved through branching time
Same old shapes in a borrowed rhyme
P-loop echoes, but the spark stays still
Like a clock face turned without a will
Built for structure, not for thrill

Bridge
Turbo-tagging in a crowded haze
Microscopes in super-res blaze
Cut it out with a clean CRISPR snap
Add it back, but the levels lag
Still the truth rings through the gap

Final Chorus
KIAP4, hold on—don’t let go
Build that plaque where the currents flow
Take that scaffold, and the chain unwinds
No colonized gate, no future finds
Break transmission at the threshold—own the road

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 435.

Song title: Two Hands on the Same Code
Original Base by Base episode: 435: E. coli TGT binds two tRNAs — cryo-EM reveals dual engagement

Article metadata:
Article title: Cryo-EM reveals that Escherichia coli tRNA-transglycosylase can bind and act upon two tRNAs
Journal: PNAS
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2601895123
Reference: Ember M. Rutha, Mariusz Matyszewski, Alexander Harjung, Jaehee Park, Caroline Knittel, Evan McCormack, and Neal K. Devaraja. Cryo-EM reveals that Escherichia coli tRNA-transglycosylase can bind and act upon two tRNAs. PNAS. 2026;123:e2601895123. doi:10.1073/pnas.2601895123

Lyrics:
Verse 1
I watch the bright screen cut the night in two,
A dimer in the spotlight, steady and true.
It pulls one loop and flips it into view,
Then reaches again like it always knew.

Pre-Chorus
Not just one lock turning, not one spark alone,
Two active hearts in the same backbone.
Hold it, trap it, let the picture show—
What we couldn’t see is starting to glow.

Chorus
Two hands on the same code, two tRNAs in time,
Covalent lightning—double-strike, double-line.
From the flip of an anticodon, the whole room aligns,
When it binds, when it binds—yeah, it binds.

Verse 2
Positive edges guide the thread through the seam,
K’s and an R like rails for the dream.
A tyrosine steady, a loop that can sway,
If you change those anchors, the magic slips away.

Bridge
So we fold a new hairpin, make the signal stay,
Dual-tag grip tight in a cleaner way.
Lower the distance, raise the chance to see,
Label the moment—set the RNA free.

Final Chorus
Two hands on the same code, two tRNAs in time,
Covalent lightning—double-strike, double-line.
Now the map is a doorway, design on our side,
When it binds, when it binds—yeah, it binds.