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Revenue Recognition, Event of Counterparty Exercising Alternative Option

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Amount of cash inflow from customers for revenue related transactions that are refundable to the customers and do not meet the criteria for revenue recognition.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 25
-Subparagraph (a)
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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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Segment, Geographical and Other Revenue Information - Additional Information (Details) $ in Millions	1 Months Ended		3 Months Ended	6 Months Ended
	Feb. 28, 2019 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2018	Mar. 31, 2019 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2019 USD ($) segment
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of operating segments \| segment				2
CDX-6114 [Member] \| Nestec Ltd. (Nestle Health Sciences) [Member] \| Collaborative Arrangement [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Milestone payment amount				$ 1.0
Duration to pay after milestone achievement		60 days		60 days
Event of counterparty exercising alternative option	$ 3.0		$ 3.0