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It's the sentence, not the science.

Looks like they infected mokney cells with (suspected SARS) virus. The cells deformed in a particular way associated with SARS.

Next they took serum (some liquid from the blood) from a patient with SARS and added this serum to the monkey cell culture. The cells un-deformed.

The idea is that the suspected SARS virus caused a similar reaction in the monkey cells as it does in SARS patients. The serum from the SARS patients caused the monkey cells to "recover" indicating that this was likely the correct virus.

11 posted on 04/08/2003 1:36:32 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)

Next they took serum (some liquid from the blood) from a patient with SARS and added this serum to the monkey cell culture. The cells un-deformed.

Am I understanding this correctly? They took a serum from the blood of person who had "recovered" and was now showing immunity against the virus and this serum was retuning the infected calls (of the monkey) back to normal? Showing a recovery of sorts?