Equity [Text Block] | (10) EQUITY TRANSACTIONS: On March 3, 2023, and December 26, 2023, following the approval of the Company’s stockholders at special meetings, the Company’s Articles of Incorporation were amended to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock from 20,000,000 to 50,000,000 and then from 50,000,000 to 250,000,000, respectively. In 2023, the Company did not In 2023, the Company did not not The Company accrues board compensation expense over the period earned. Board compensation expense for board members is included in “Board of Directors fees and costs” on our consolidated statement of operations. In 2023, the Company issued 259,318 shares to board members with a value of $305,181, at the time of issuance, in addition to $30,750 of accrued stock compensation as of December 31, 2022. In 2022, the Company issued 65,479 shares to board members with a value of $133,263, at the time of issuance, in addition to $41,004 of accrued compensation of December 31, 2021. On January 3, 2023, the Company sold to an institutional investor in a registered direct offering 930,000 shares of common stock at a purchase price per share of $1.61, and prefunded warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,678,696 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $1.61 per pre-funded warrant. The pre-funded warrants have an exercise price of $0.0001 per share and remain exercisable until exercised in full. In a concurrent private placement, the Company also issued to the investor Series A-1 warrants to purchase up to 2,608,696 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.36 per share, exercisable for a period of five three The Company classified the fair value of the warrants as equity because they are indexed to its own stock and meet the conditions necessary for equity classification in accordance with the guidance in ASC Subtopic 815-40 on derivatives and hedging. H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC acted as placement agent to the Company in connection with the registered direct offering and concurrent private placement and was paid a cash fee equal to 7.5% of the gross proceeds of the offering, a management fee equal to 1.0% of the gross proceeds of the offering, and was reimbursed by the Company for its non-accountable expenses in the amount of $35,000, for fees and expenses of its legal counsel, for other out-of-pocket expenses in the amount of $50,000, and for its clearing expenses in the amount of $15,950. The Company also issued to designees of the placement agent five-year On January 25, 2023, the investor exercised a portion of its pre-funded warrants and acquired 400,696 shares of common stock for an aggregate exercise price of $40, and on February 27, 2023, the investor exercised an additional portion of its pre-funded warrants and acquired 741,000 shares of common stock for an aggregate exercise price of $74. On April 3, 2023, the investor exercised the remaining balance of pre-funded warrants and acquired 537,000 shares of common stock for an aggregate exercise price of $54. On April 20, 2023, the Company, completed a private placement of its securities priced at-the-market under the rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., to a group of accredited investors that included several directors of the Company and members of management and their affiliates. Investors in the private placement purchased 1,562,883 shares of common and were issued warrants to purchase 1,562,883 shares of common stock. The purchase price for one share of common stock and a warrant to purchase one share of common stock was $0.835. The warrants have an exercise price of $0.71 and have a term of seven On May 2, 2023, the Company completed the private placement of its securities to Rafael Holdings, Inc. (“Rafael Holdings”), a Delaware corporation, in which it purchased 2,514,970 shares of common stock, and a warrant to purchase an additional 2,514,970 shares of common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $2,100,000. The warrant has an exercise price of $0.71 per share, and is exercisable for the seven-year On August 1, 2023, the Company completed an additional private placement of its securities to Rafael Holdings pursuant to a securities purchase agreement between the Company and Rafael Holdings dated June 1, 2023. Rafael Holdings purchased 4,000,000 shares of common stock and a seven-year On October 20, 2023, the Company entered into a security purchase agreement with certain investors of the April and May 2023 private placement. The investors exercised warrants to purchase 3,359,297 shares of common stock and the gross proceeds were $2,388,077. In exchange, the investors received new warrants with an exercise price equal to $0.95 per share, to purchase 110% of the number of shares of the Company’s common stock covered under the original warrants. The new warrants will be exercisable for cash only and have a term of four years from the issuance date. The Company determined the fair value of the warrants was $2,387,117 using the following inputs to the Black-Scholes pricing model: stock price $0.95, exercise price $0.95, life 4 years, dividend rate -0-, risk free interest rate 4.86 and volatility 92.6%. The fair value was deemed to be a cost of capital and was included in equity. The investors include Rafael Holdings, a significant shareholder of the Company, several directors of the Company and management. On December 27, 2023, the Company completed a strategic combination with Applied Molecular Transport, Inc. See Note 12. Warrants The following table presents the number of common stock warrants outstanding: Warrants outstanding, December 31, 2021 2,048,186 Issued - Exercised - Expired (2,340 ) Warrants outstanding, December 31, 2022 2,045,846 Issued 18,825,700 Exercised (5,037,993 ) Expired (87,707 ) Warrants outstanding, December 31, 2023 15,745,846 The following table presents the number of common stock warrants outstanding, their exercise price, and expiration dates at December 31, 2023: Warrants Issued Exercise Price Expiration Date 58,930 $ 35 February 2024 2,400 $ 25 October 2024 57,600 $ 25 October 2024 302,379 $ 9.37 November 2024 80,000 $ 25 April 2025 35,200 $ 65 December 2025 2,223 $ 11 September 2025 283,111 $ 15 August 2027 1,078,796 $ 5 December 2025 57,500 $ 6.25 December 2025 2,608,596 $ 1.36 January 2026 156,522 $ 2.02 December 2027 2,608,596 1.36 January 2028 3,695,227 $ 0.95 October 2028 718,566 $ 0.71 April 2030 4,000,000 $ 1.25 August 2030 15,745,846 In addition, there are currently outstanding seven-year |