How fast are humans mutating? Humans seem to have accelerated the pace of just about everything from communication to climate change, but the rate of our genetic mutation remains slow and steady.

人类似乎已经加快了从通讯到气候变化几乎所有事物的速度，但是我们的遗传变异速率依然缓慢而稳定。

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The combination accelerated the development of lung cancers that carried a mutation in the gene KRAS - a common feature of many human lung cancers.

结果发现两种物质的联合加速了肺癌的进展，肺癌中存在KRAS基因突变，即人类肺癌中一种常见的特征。

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The researchers found that 6% of the patients had a mutation in the 5-lipoxygenase gene and experienced accelerated atherosclerosis compared with the other patients, according to results published in January in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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