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Read an old Larry Niven story where he used this idea. Back in the 1900's scientists theorized that aging was caused by garbage building up in the cells. If you transported and left the garbage behind your body would revert to a younger stage without memory loss.
I don't accept the premise -- the pattern is read on transport, yes? Rather than a fixed record of one's composition. Therefore, the only aging you won't be doing is for the duration of the transport process itself. Chump change.
They regularly allude to the idea of "pattern buffers" that hold on to a copy of you for as long as the plot requires.
Can I have my balls tightened up as well?
I suppose if we got to understand the human body well enough transporters could be used to modify you. For example like giving you a bigger dick or even more extreme, turning your dick into a fully functioning vagina.
This sort of teleportation also effectively kills you, right? Once you are molecularly demolished, your direct stream of consciousness stops, while "you" who steps out of a teleportation machine in a destination point is your perfect copy with implanted memories.
You die every time you go into the transporter. The transporter has a heck of a time saving your consciousness/soul. A husk that resembles you and has your memories comes out the other side, but the moment you enter the transporter its nighty night.
The transporter has a heck of a time saving your consciousness/soul.
It shouldn't. If it's able to copy your brain at the molecular level, There's no reason your memories and sense of self shouldn't remain intact.