Show Notes
This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 88.
Song title: Eighty-Three in the Blood
Original Base by Base episode: 88: Stable heritability of childhood Type 1 diabetes
Article metadata:
Article title: Stable heritability of type 1 diabetes in a Swedish Nationwide Cohort Study
Journal: Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60813-2
Reference: Wei Y, Andersson T, Liu S, Feychting M, Kuja-Halkola R & Carlsson S. Stable heritability of type 1 diabetes in a Swedish Nationwide Cohort Study. Nature Communications (2025) 16:5327. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-60813-2
Lyrics:
Verse 1
Late-night charts on a bright-blue screen,
Family lines where the risk runs clean,
Numbers talk when the noise fades out,
Eighty-three percent—no doubt.
Pre-Chorus
Incidence climbed, then it learned to stall,
Same strong signal behind it all,
If the world changed, it barely shows,
So where’s the spark? Nobody knows.
Chorus
It’s in the bloodline, it’s in the code,
Same heavy truth on a different road,
We chase the trigger through light and mud,
But the loudest drum is the steady blood.
Verse 2
Younger onset, higher weight,
A tighter clock on a harder fate,
We blamed the obvious, checked the list,
Still most of the rise won’t fit the gist.
Bridge
Not just one thing, not one name,
Not just one season to take the blame,
Gene meets world in a hidden place,
We feel the heat but can’t see the face.
Final Chorus
It’s in the bloodline, it’s in the code,
Still holding steady while the years explode,
We’ll find the trigger—keep digging, flood,
’Til we quiet the fire in the steady blood.
