Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2011 – live blog

One prediction for the prize today is Shinya Yamanaka, who showed that it was possible to reprogramme adult cells into an embryonic stem cell-like form, and use these to regenerate other tissues.But stem cells are still in their infancy so it may be too early for the Nobel committee to recognise the work as a major breakthrough. Remember, Robert Edwards, who pioneered IVF, received the award only last year.We expect the live video stream of the announcements to be up and running in five or ten minutes. Glitches are a something of a tradition for the Nobel prizes. The awards almost never happened because Alfred Nobel wrote his last will and testament without any help and introduced a number of flaws and <a href="http://www.newerahatstock.com/"><strong>new era cap 59fifty</strong></a> legal problems that left it open to contest.Part of the problem was that Nobel, who lived in Sweden, Russia, France and, finally, Italy, never claimed citizenship after leaving Sweden at the age of nine. The omission meant it was never clear which country's laws should apply to the will.Nobel amassed assets in many countries and left the majority of his wealth to establish the prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. Economics was added later.The prizes were <a href="http://newerahatstock.com/dc-hat-c-12.html"><strong>dc hats</strong></a> for "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind."The time for predictions is over. Soon after 10.30am BST today, the Nobel committee will announce who has won the prize in physiology or medicine. For the winner, or winners, there will be congratulations, admiration and kudos. Not to mention the prize money of 10 million Swedish kronor (£934,000).We will follow the announcement live and bring you comment and analysis from scientists in the field.Today's award is followed by the physics prize on Tuesday morning and the chemistry prize on Wednesday. The two non-science prizes, for peace and economics, are revealed on Friday and Monday respectively. The date for the literature prize has not yet been announced.Last year, the Physiology or Medicine prize went to Robert Edwards, the British scientist who pioneered in-vitro fertilisation, a procedure that has helped in the conception and birth of an estimated four million people since the first <a href="http://newerahatstock.com/nfl-hats-c-18.html"><strong>nfl hats</strong></a> test-tube baby, Louise Brown in 1978.In 2009, three scientists, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak shared the prize for work that showed how chromosomes are protected by shoelace-like lengths of DNA called telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.As ever, the pundits have made their predictions for this year. The citation company, Thomson Reuters, names 18 scientists who might be honoured today. They include researchers whose work has focused on the immune system, treatments for chronic myeloid leukaemia and tissue engineering.Other predictions for the prize recognise work on leptin, a hormone involved in body weight, and the development of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells for regenerative medicine.Now it is time to hear what the committee has to say. We will stream the who ceremony here as soon as it begins.You can watch live video of the Nobel ceremony below: .