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Estimated fair value of Success payment liability.

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Maximum contingent consideration upon achievement of certain pre specified development milestones.

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Maximum potential success payments.

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Threshold market capitalization.

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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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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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Amount of increase (decrease) in the value of a contingent consideration liability, including, but not limited to, differences arising upon settlement.

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Acquisitions - Additional Information (Details) - USD ($)	1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended		41 Months Ended
	Feb. 28, 2019	Jun. 30, 2022	Jun. 30, 2021	Jun. 30, 2022	Jun. 30, 2021	Jun. 30, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Goodwill		$ 140,627,000		$ 140,627,000		$ 140,627,000	$ 140,627,000
Estimated fair value of contingent consideration, short term liabilities		51,386,000		51,386,000		51,386,000	51,382,000
Estimated fair value of contingent consideration, long-term liabilities		97,999,000		97,999,000		97,999,000	102,361,000
Contingent consideration				(4,358,000)	$ 18,556,000	98,100,000
Acquisition Agreement \| Cobalt Biomedicine Inc
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business acquisition, percentage of voting interests acquired	100.00%
Business combination, intangible assets	$ 59,200,000
Goodwill	140,600,000
Business acquisition, impairment of intangible assets or goodwill	0
Maximum contingent consideration upon achievement of certain pre-specified development milestones	$ 500,000,000.0
Maximum period expected to achieve for success payments	20 years
Acquisition Agreement \| Cobalt Biomedicine Inc \| Research and Development Expense
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Estimated fair value of contingent consideration		149,400,000		149,400,000		149,400,000	153,700,000
Estimated fair value of contingent consideration, short term liabilities		51,400,000		51,400,000		51,400,000	51,400,000
Estimated fair value of contingent consideration, long-term liabilities		98,000,000.0		98,000,000.0		98,000,000.0	102,300,000
Change in estimated fair value of success payment		12,100,000	$ 66,600,000	58,900,000	(25,100,000)
Contingent consideration		3,800,000	$ (7,200,000)	4,400,000	$ (18,600,000)
Acquisition Agreement \| Cobalt Biomedicine Inc \| Long-term Liabilities \| Research and Development Expense
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Estimated fair value of success payment liability		$ 29,500,000		$ 29,500,000		$ 29,500,000	$ 88,300,000
Acquisition Agreement \| Cobalt Biomedicine Inc \| Minimum
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Threshold market capitalization	$ 8,100,000,000
Acquisition Agreement \| Cobalt Biomedicine Inc \| Market Capitalization Equal to or Exceeds $8.1 billion
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Cobalt success payment	$ 500,000,000.0