This isn't really an area of particular expertise for me; however, Genome Canada does fund a lot of work when it comes to ethics, policy and genomics research, including human research.
Globally, there is a moratorium on doing any kind of what we call “germline editing”—research involving persistent changes in the genome that can be passed on—but it is also an area of ongoing discussion and debate, because the ethics are complicated. We do find that we want to keep the options open for the future and that there may well come a time where we see that the benefits outweigh the risks and costs.
