Srinagar, June 27 -- Srinagar - A Kashmiri-origin scientist working in the United States has helped identify and name a previously unknown cellular process that could reshape scientists' understanding of how brain cells gradually become vulnerable to neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, offering a potential new avenue for early intervention and treatment.

Dr Nawab John Dar, a postdoctoral researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California, is the lead and co-corresponding author of a peer-reviewed study published in Cell Death Discovery that introduces the term "chronoferroptosis"-a chronic cellular stress pathway in which neurones remain alive but progressively lose their resilience...