Show Notes
This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 348.
Song title: Ninety-Six Names in the Light
Original Base by Base episode: 348: v96: A 96-mutation plasma DNA test to track residual AML through transplant
Article metadata:
Article title: A plasma - based DNA test for quantification of disease burden in acute myeloid leukemia patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation
Journal: PNAS
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2537987123
Reference: Wang Y et al., A plasma-based DNA test for quantification of disease burden in acute myeloid leukemia patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation. PNAS. 2026;123(16):e2537987123. doi:10.1073/pnas.2537987123
Lyrics:
Verse 1
In hospital halls under fluorescent bloom,
they took my blood and listened to the room.
Not in the marrow—too deep, too hard to find,
but in the plasma, the echoes left behind.
Pre-Chorus
Ninety-six names, a constellation of small scars,
passenger whispers traveling like stars.
A strand-by-strand truth, precise and clean,
showing what “remission” really means.
Chorus
Read the river, not the stone,
count the sparks before they’re grown.
If the shadow wants to rise,
we’ll see it coming in my bloodline’s tide.
Hold the line, let the signal fight—
ninety-six names in the light.
Verse 2
Two months out and the charts still glow,
a quiet burden where the eye says “no.”
Some fall only when the guards step back,
when the immune fire runs down the track.
Bridge
I don’t need a needle to the bone to know,
I need a window where the numbers show.
Turn down the shield, let the graft defend,
and chase the last bad clone to the end.
Final Chorus
Read the river, not the stone,
count the sparks before they’re grown.
From a single drop, a clearer sign,
guiding every hard decision down the line.
Hold the line, let the signal fight—
ninety-six names in the light.
