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Integrity of nucleic acids (particularly RNA) may be compromised at various steps of tissue handling, and affected by factors such as time to freeze, freezing technique and storing temperature. At the same time, freezing and storing of the biological material should be feasible and safe for the operator. Here, we compared quality of DNA and RNA from biospecimens derived from different organs (breast, colon, adrenal glands, testes, rectum and uterus) frozen either using dry ice-cooled isopentane or with FlashFREEZE unit, in order to verify if the latter is suitable for routine use in biobanking. Implementing FlashFREEZE device would enable us to limit the use of isopentane, which is potentially toxic and environmentally harmful, whilst facilitate standardization of sample freezing time. We considered factors such RNA and DNA yield and purity. Furthermore, RNA integrity and RNA\/DNA performance in routine analyses, such as qPCR, next generation sequencing or microarray, were also assessed. Our results indicate that freezing of tissue samples either with FlashFREEZE unit or isopentane ensures biological material with comparable expression profiles and DNA mutation status, indicating that RNA and DNA of similar quality can be extracted from both. 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