BIO 2008, the world's largest conference for the biotechnology industry, is being held in San Diego from June 16. In our annual preview, we take a look at how the Australian sector is travelling.

With alarm bells ringing over genetically modified organisms and their potential effects on the environment, stories about how biotechnology is also being used to improve the environment are harder to find.

Some Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) could struggle to meet their seven-year revenue projections, the annual CRC Association conference in Sydney has been told.