Leases - Additional Information (Detail)	Dec. 31, 2021 a State Option
Office, Laboratory, and Storage Space [Member]
Lessee Lease Description [Line Items]
Number of States in which Entity Has Lease Arrangements \| State	13
Office, Laboratory, and Storage Space [Member] \| Minimum
Lessee Lease Description [Line Items]
Lessee, Operating Lease, Term of Contract	1 year
Office, Laboratory, and Storage Space [Member] \| Maximum
Lessee Lease Description [Line Items]
Lessee, Operating Lease, Term of Contract	10 years
Phoenix Arizona [Member]
Lessee Lease Description [Line Items]
Lessee, Operating Lease, Term of Contract	30 years
Area of Land \| a	147
Number of Options to Renew Lease \| Option	2
Lessee, Operating Lease, Renewal Term	15 years

Number of options to renew lease.

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Number of states in which entity has lease arrangements.

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Area of land held.

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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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Term of lessee's operating lease renewal, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 842
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (a)(3)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=123408670&loc=SL77918673-209980

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Term of lessee's operating lease, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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