You realize that her germ factory must have created the plague twenty-seven years ago?

At which point, people we really don't trust will have a captive superintelligent pocket universe that can design germ factories.

Before you do that," she said, "get Xé to stop the germ factory.

The germ factory, far to the north, was shut down forever, nanites dispersed.

Xé knew how the germ factory worked, and she was hooked into all the digital intelligence in the world.

The Pentagon's project to build a germ factory was not reported to the White House, they said.

"It's the busiest germ factory in your house."

Officials said the project was intended to assess how hard it would be for a terrorist or rogue nation to assemble a germ factory.

No matter how clean they may be, remember this: Hands are veritable germ factories, so keep them away from your nose and mouth.

"For a million dollars you can assemble a working germ factory," the narrator says.