Abstract: Apparatuses (e.g., devices, systems, etc.) and methods that may provide access to one or more tools to a remote site in the body including expandable and external working channels that may be part of a tube that is coupled to an outer surface of an elongate medical device, such as an endoscope.

Abstract: An endoscopic instrument (312, 820, 824) includes an outer tubing (206) extending from a proximal tubing end to a distal tubing end, a flexible torque component (200) extending through the outer tubing, an articulation assembly (400, 500, 600, 700, 828), and an end effector (450, 550, 650, 750, 824). The articulation assembly (400, 500, 600, 700, 828) is coupled to the distal tubing end and includes a plurality of segments (404, 408, 504, 604, 704) and at least one control member (412, 512, 612, 712) extending from a proximal control end to a distal control end coupled with the plurality of segments. The control member manipulates an orientation of at least one segment of the plurality of segments responsive to receiving a control input at the proximal control end.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention provide a method of controlling the solid-state property of the solid-phase surface or controlling forming reactive region. The method can be attained by using a device for ejecting droplets and a molecule for inclusion in a SAM which can be photo-patterned in a short period of time using low energy UV radiation, that is TV radiation having a relatively long wavelength. The invention can provide monomolecular film that is formed from molecules comprising a structural component (B) which is hydrophobic and/or lipophobic, and a structural component (A) which decomposes when irradiated with UV light having a wavelength in the range 254-400 nm to cleave away a part of the molecule having the structural component (B) leaving a residual hydrophilic structural component (C).

Abstract: Aspects of the invention provide a method of controlling the solid-state property of the solid-phase surface or controlling forming reactive region. The method can be attained by using a device for ejecting droplets and a molecule for inclusion in a SAM which can be photo-patterned in a short period of time using low energy UV radiation, that is TV radiation having a relatively long wavelength. The invention can provide monomolecular film that is formed from molecules comprising a structural component (B) which is hydrophobic and/or lipophobic, and a structural component (A) which decomposes when irradiated with UV light having a wavelength in the range 254-400 nm to cleave away a part of the molecule having the structural component (B) leaving a residual hydrophilic structural component (C).