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Despite crises in image and funding, Italian biomedical research has reached a turning point. A brighter future is in prospect if the universities successfully reorganize themselves and new competitive institutes are established.
On the taxonomic hierarchy that runs from species to kingdom, phylum ranks one level from the top. There are only 35 or so animal phyla, to which the Cycliophora must now be added.