Following Tuesday's meeting, Rhodri Talfan Davies, the director of BBC Cymru Wales, said the two sides were getting closer.

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Following a meeting on Tuesday, Mr Talfan Davies, said the two sides were getting closer, but added it was a complicated dispute, and he was not willing to give a timetable for a resolution.

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"Never, ever wrap your hand for any reason in the line, " Burkholder said to the volunteers who were eager to do the menial labour of science in exchange for getting a closer look at the creatures they were hoping to save.

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Prof Stephen Holgate, from the University of Southampton, said the results were "impressive" and were a "wonderful example" of personalised medicine getting closer to the GPs surgeries.

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