Show Notes
This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 100.
Song title: Thirty-Eight Lights
Original Base by Base episode: 100: ALMA: Epigenomic diagnosis & prognosis of AML
Article metadata:
Article title: Epigenomic diagnosis and prognosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Journal: Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62005-4
Reference: Marchi F. et al., Epigenomic diagnosis and prognosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Nature Communications (2025). doi:10.1038/s41467-025-62005-4
Lyrics:
Verse 1
Midnight in the lab, the monitors glow
A whisper in the code where the hidden marks grow
Methyl lines like constellations on a blood-dark page
Telling us the subtype, turning fear into a stage
Pre-Chorus
One drop, one run, let the long reads fly
Patterns in the silence where the old tests lie
If the map is faithful, we can choose the road
Before the clock decides what tomorrow is owed
Chorus
Thirty-eight lights in the circuitry of time
Turning risk into rhythm, turning loss into sign
Name it, place it, break the blur apart
Read the future softly from the methylated heart
Verse 2
Arrays and harmonized waves, a million points aligned
A learning curve that listens to the patient’s kind
From marrow to the edge of a peripheral stream
Same signature returning like a recognizable dream
Bridge
Not every rare story fits the first design
Not every low-coverage night draws a perfect line
But the signal keeps calling through the noise we face
A faster specimen-to-result, a little more grace
Final Chorus
Thirty-eight lights and the whole map comes alive
From diagnosis to prognosis, we learn how to survive
Hold the data close, let the answers start
Read the future clearly from the methylated heart
