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Device Name	Book/Story	Author	Date
Yeast Steak Growing custom strains of yeast as food.	The Evitable Conflict	Asimov	1950
Yeast-Beast Machine A device for growing meat in a vat.	Natulife	Brin	1994
Yeast-Culture Vats Using cultured yeast as the basis for food production.	Caves of Steel	Asimov	1953
Young Blood - New Blood For Old Replacing the blood plasma of older people with material from younger people.	Methuselah's Children	Heinlein	1941
Young-Forever A very particular formula for human immortality, which solves the most serious attendant problem (population explosion).	A World Out of Time	Niven	1976

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