Here's an article on that manufacturing process that allows one to beam instructions for a part to a receiving station, which can build the part on demand layer by layer. This article describes it in reference to Star Trek's transporter system:
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/29/nasas-version-of-star-trek-replicator-ready-for-on-orbit-test/
It's the first stages toward my idea for creating "real" teleportation: if we do achieve mature molecular nanotechnology (over the next two decades or so), then there's the possibility we'll be able to disassemble an entire human being and store all the data that make up that person. Send that data to a ship or even another planet via radio or laser or whatever, and have assemblers on the ship/planet reassemble the person from common raw materials. It wouldn't be teleportation in seconds, but it would be effectively teleportation in hours, and a hell of a lot cheaper than sending that person to the destination by conventional means.
(Of course, this assumes all aspects of the brain can be captured and replicated, but it's not that big a stretch.)
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