Thankfully, no. Her current employer and coworkers have been very understanding of her condition. In fact, one of the reasons Irene has a lab assistant, Sally, is to serve as ballast if she gets too big to handle.

Irene's nanomachines, and what they do to people, have become something of a curiosity around the place. They've also on occasion proved useful to scientists working in meteorology (weather balloons and ballooned weather scientists) and alternative energy (fusion fuel). Still, despite all the eyes on the nanomachines themselves, nobody's been able to crack a cure or control mechanism as of yet. About the only problem anyone has is with unintentional release and the occasional prank. Not Irene's prank, mind. She's a bit too serious to pull off something like that.