Stunning breakthroughs in biotechnology are transforming healthcare at an unimaginable speed. Remarkable technologies like CRISPR-Cas9 offer hope for treating incurable conditions, regenerative medicine may soon enable printing organs for transplantation, and that is just the beginning. -By KAREN WHITE

Significant events in the biotech industry are demonstrating remarkable new ways to approach medicine and healthcare, tackling problems that seemed insolvable not so long ago and enhancing patient outcomes. Technically, the biotech revolution began in the 1990s with the development of technologies like recombinant DNA technology that allows gene manipulation and geno....