Teleportation has been a favorite theme of numerous movies and novels, inspiring minds of men during decades. Alas, teleportation is just a sort of daydreaming, the sober-minded scientists have argued until recently.

However, the scientists of Austria, Australia and Denmark have achieved actual teleportation, true; they could teleport only atoms and protons, not people or things.

During the “quantum teleportation” the atom itself doesn’t move from its place. It is just its quantum information which is transmitted to another atom, making the latter copy of the previous one.
As for the teleportation of a human, one of the discoverers of quantum teleportation Charles Bennet doesn’t rule out such a possibility in future. He thinks its mechanism will be similar to the principle of a fax machine: the resieved information and the layout of a document is transmitted exactly, however the paper and the ink of the fax copy is different from the original one’s. "We already have three-dimensional fax machines, so the basic theory is there"- Bennet explains.

So, at the end, the teleported person will end up being same, but not quite same in fact. However what will happen to a person, whose bio-molecular details will be “faxed” away, and how tempting such a proposal is for an average person- these are the topics for another discussion- Benett concludes.

Besides, it is also worth to mention that human body contains trillions of atoms , so it will be quite difficult to “fax” and “receive” such amount of information without a single error- for example- a “lost” nose or a “miss-attached” ear, not to mention the possibility of a suddenly emptied cartridge in this “humane-sending fax machine”.

However, quantum teleportation itself opens broad new horisons for the computing and information-transportation. “Although we are still some way off actually building a quantum computer, the possibilities are extraordinary," says Professor Neil Johnson of the University of Miami's Department of Physics. "In theory it could contain an almost infinite amount of information, and move that information around at almost the speed of light."

Reference :
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/10/human.teleportation/index.html