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Class of Warrant or Right, Exercise Price of Warrants or Rights, Volume of Weighted Average Price During Market Hours, Percentage

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Class of Warrant or Right, Period from which Warrants or Rights are Exercisable

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Decrease In Fair Value Of Warrants

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Stock Issued During Period, Shares, Rights Offering

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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Number of securities into which the class of warrant or right may be converted. For example, but not limited to, 500,000 warrants may be converted into 1,000,000 shares.

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Expected dividends to be paid to holders of the underlying shares or financial instruments (expressed as a percentage of the share or instrument's price).

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Period the instrument, asset or liability is expected to be outstanding, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Risk-free interest rate assumption used in valuing an instrument.

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The cash outflow for cost incurred directly with the issuance of an equity security.

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The cash inflow from issuance of rights to purchase common shares at predetermined price (usually issued together with corporate debt).

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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Number of new stock issued during the period.

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Value of outstanding derivative securities that permit the holder the right to purchase securities (usually equity) from the issuer at a specified price.

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Financial Instruments (Details) - USD ($)				3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended
Financial Instruments (Details) - USD ($)	Nov. 16, 2016	Oct. 13, 2016	Sep. 02, 2016	Jun. 30, 2017	Jun. 30, 2016	Jun. 30, 2017	Jun. 30, 2016	Dec. 31, 2016
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Exercise price of warrants to purchase common stock			$ 2.29
Fair value of warrant				$ 7,059,262		$ 7,059,262		$ 6,727,409
Increase in fair value of warrant liability				294,356	$ 0	(331,853)	$ 0
Decrease in fair value of warrants						(331,853)	$ 0
Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Warrants to purchase common stock			4,000,000
Exercise price of warrants to purchase common stock			$ 1.50
Exercisable period for warrants (in years)			10 years
Equity Rights
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Equity offering	$ 35,300,000
Subscription Right \| Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Exercise price of warrants to purchase common stock			$ 1.50
Common Stock
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Issuance of common stock associated with rights offering, shares	23,523,195
Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Fair value of warrant			$ 5,800,000	7,100,000		$ 7,100,000
Risk free interest rate (as a percent)			1.60%			2.28%
Expected dividend rate (as a percent)			0.00%			0.00%
Expected term (in years)			10 years			9 years 2 months 1 day
Expected volatility rate (as a percent)			80.00%			80.00%
Increase in fair value of warrant liability				$ (294,356)
Decrease in fair value of warrants						$ 331,853
Private Placement
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Payments of stock issuance costs						$ 1,764,240
Share price	$ 2.49
Common Stock \| Subscription Right
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Exercise price of warrants to purchase common stock	1.50
Amount to be invested by each warrant or right to purchase securities, per share	$ 0.65
Volume of weighted average price during market hours (as a percent)	85.00%
Common Stock \| Private Placement
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Stock issued during period, new issues, shares		708,530
MacAndrews & Forbes \| Common Stock \| Private Placement
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Stock issued during period, new issues, shares		565,000