Asset Purchase Agreement, Milestone Payments Contingent Upon the Achievement of Certain Approvals

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Loss Contingency, Milestone Period

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Amount of minimum lease payments for capital leases due in the next fiscal year following the latest fiscal year. Excludes interim and annual periods when interim periods are reported on a rolling approach, from latest balance sheet date.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 840
-SubTopic 30
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (b)
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Amount of minimum lease payments for capital leases due in the second fiscal year following the latest fiscal year. Excludes interim and annual periods when interim periods are reported on a rolling approach, from latest balance sheet date.

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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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Rental expense for the reporting period incurred under operating leases, including minimum and any contingent rent expense, net of related sublease income.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 840
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=77902758&loc=d3e41499-112717

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Commitments and Contingencies - Additional Information (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands		12 Months Ended
	Oct. 04, 2017	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Rent expense		$ 2,000	$ 1,400	$ 1,500
Minimum lease payments 2018		262
Minimum lease payments 2019		$ 262
Milestone period		15 years
Envisia Therapeutics Inc.
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Minimum lease payments 2018		$ 454
Minimum lease payments 2019		$ 235
Milestone payments contingent upon the achievement of certain approvals (up to)	$ 45,000