Also undergoing a brain transplant is Bristol-Myers Squibb, which fired serial blunderer Peter Dolan and is still looking for a permanent replacement.

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The rover's "brain transplant, " which will occur during a series of steps Aug. 10 through Aug. 13, will install a new version of software on both of the rover's redundant main computers.

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Also undergoing a brain transplant is Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ), which fired serial blunderer Peter Dolan and is still looking for a permanent replacement.

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Because livers donated after cardiac death have sometimes been linked to worse outcomes after transplant compared to brain-death donations, the fact that more cardiac-death organs were discarded did not surprise the researchers.

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Last year Chinese doctors at a military hospital are believed to have performed the world's first penis transplant, from a brain-dead young man to a 44-year-old worker who had lost his organ in an accident.

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Japan didn't legalize organ transplants from brain-dead donors until 1997, according to the Japan Organ Transplant Network, a non-governmental group.

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Doctors worried that leukemic cells might have infiltrated her brain, a development that would have left her with only one option, a bone marrow transplant.

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