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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Policies)
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Unaudited Interim Financial Information
Unaudited Interim Financial Information
The accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements and notes have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Certain information and note disclosures normally included in the annual financial statements, prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. (“GAAP”), have been condensed or omitted pursuant to those rules and regulations. These unaudited condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited financial statements and the notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC on March 26, 2025.
The unaudited condensed financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the audited financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of the Company’s condensed financial position as of June 30, 2025 and its condensed results of operations and cash flows for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, have been made. The Company’s condensed results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2025.
Discontinued Operations
Discontinued Operations
In August 2023, the Company announced its strategic decision to operate as a single platform company focused exclusively on developing in vivo gene editing therapies with the completion of the sale of its chimeric antigen receptor (“CAR”) T infrastructure to Imugene Limited, an Australian corporation (“Imugene Limited”), and its wholly-owned subsidiary Imugene (USA) Inc. (“Imugene US”), a Nevada corporation (collectively, “Imugene”). Additionally, the Company licensed its lead allogeneic CAR T candidate for cancer, azercabtagene zapreleucel (“azer-cel”), to Imugene.
Accordingly, the accompanying condensed financial statements have been recast for all periods presented to reflect the assets, liabilities and expenses related to the Company’s CAR T programs as discontinued operations (see Note 8, Discontinued Operations). The accompanying condensed financial statements are generally presented in conformity with the Company’s historical format.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Accounting Standards Updates
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
The Company’s complete listing of significant accounting policies is set forth in Note 1, Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, to the Notes to Condensed Financial Statements on its Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. There have been no changes to these policies as of June 30, 2025.
Accounting Standards Updates
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, to expand the disclosure requirements for income taxes. Upon adoption, companies will be required to disclose additional specified categories in the rate reconciliation. Companies will also be required to disclose the amount of income taxes paid disaggregated by jurisdiction, among other disclosure requirements. The standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, and can be applied either prospectively or retrospectively. We plan to adopt the standard in our 2025 annual period and are currently assessing its effect on our financial statement disclosures.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses, to improve disclosures around an entity’s expenses. Upon adoption, companies will be required to disclose in the notes to the financial statements a disaggregation of certain expense categories included within the expense captions on the face of the income statement. The standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted, and can be applied either prospectively or retrospectively. We plan to adopt the standard in our 2027 annual period and are currently assessing its effect on our financial statement disclosures.
Segment Reporting
Operating segments are identified as components of an entity about which separate discrete financial information is available for evaluation by the chief operating decision maker or decision-making group (“CODM”) in making decisions on how to allocate resources and assess performance. The Company’s CODM, the Chief Executive Officer, views the Company’s operations as one operating segment, which includes the discovery and development of therapies utilizing our novel proprietary ARCUS platform. Our clinical and preclinical candidates were developed using the ARCUS platform to treat various forms of infectious and genetic disease.
The Company has not generated any revenue from product sales to date and expects to incur significant expenses and operating losses for the foreseeable future as it advances product candidates through development and clinical trials. As such, the CODM uses cash forecast models in managing and allocating resources on a total company basis, such as pursuing clinical development or entering into potential strategic collaborations. The CODM assesses the overall level of resources available and how to best deploy these resources across functions and research and development projects that are in line with the Company’s long-term strategic goals.
Consistent with its management reporting, results of operations are reported on a Company-wide basis for purposes of segment reporting. The CODM uses Company-wide financial information, including net income (loss) and comprehensive income (loss), net cash used in operating activities for the period, and cash on hand for purposes of evaluating operating results and performance. As the Company operates in one operating segment, all measures of the segment assets are reported on the balance sheets as total assets. Please refer to the financial statements for further information related to these measures of segment performance.
Warrants
The warrants issued in the March 2024 Public Offering are classified as a liability in accordance with ASC 815, since these warrants met the definition of a derivative instrument and did not qualify for equity classification. These warrant agreements include a fundamental transaction clause whereby, in the event that another person or entity becomes the beneficial owner of 50% of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock, and if other conditions are met, the Company may be required to purchase the warrants from the holders by paying cash in an amount equal to the Black-Scholes value of the remaining unexercised portion of the warrants on the date of such fundamental transaction. This liability is subject to remeasurement at each balance sheet date until the warrants are exercised or expire, and any change in fair value is recognized in the Company’s condensed statements of operations.