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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Stock-based Compensation Valuation (Details) | 9 Months Ended |
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Sep. 30, 2022 | Sep. 30, 2021 | Mar. 31, 2021
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |  |  |
Lexicon incremental borrowing rate | 970.00% |  | 900.00%
Equity Option [Member] |  |  |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |  |  |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, ExpectedVolatilityRate, Employees | 107.00% | 102.00% |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Risk Free Interest Rate, Employee | 2.40% | 0.60% |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Expected Term, Employees | 4 years | 4 years |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Expected Dividend Rate, Employees | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Expected Volatility Rate, Officers and Non-employee Directors | 91.00% | 90.00% |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Risk Free Interest Rate, Officers and Non-employee Directors | 1.90% | 1.10% |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Expected Term, Officers and Non-employee Directors | 7 years | 7 years |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Expected Dividend Rate, Officers and Non-employee Directors | 0.00% | 0.00% |

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- Definition The estimated dividend rate (a percentage of the share price) to be paid (expected dividends) to holders of the underlying shares over the employees' option's term. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition The estimated dividend rate (a percentage of the share price) to be paid (expected dividends) to holders of the underlying shares over the officers' and non-employee directors' option's term. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition The expected term assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares for employees. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition For officers and non-employee directors, the estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition For employees, the estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period. + References No definition available. + Details
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