India, Feb. 25 -- A new wave of anti-vaxxers around the world means that children may soon start dying of measles, polio, and other diseases that we thought were behind us, Dr Drew Weissman, the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, told Rhythma Kaul in an interview. The head of the Weissman Lab at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr Weissman and his then colleague Katalin Kariko discovered a foundational tweak to RNA, which became the basis for successful mRNA platform -- a breakthrough that paved the way for the first Covid-19 vaccine in 2020. While speaking about his work and the future of research at a time when the US is pulling out as a major funder, he lamented that though there were always anti-vaccine p...