Yao’s paper on his new tool for the interaction of Transposable Elements (TEs) with genes, TEKRABber, is published as Reviewed Preprint, “Regulatory networks of KRAB zinc finger genes and transposable elements changed during human brain evolution and disease” in eLife. Having in mind that KRAB-ZNF transcription factor genes evolve very quickly in primates and that some KRAB-ZNF proteins might repress fast evolving TEs, Yao developed an R package for the comparative analysis of such interactions. He shows that there are indeed many human specific interactions, which might be relevant for human for the evolution and for diseases of the human brain.